Patents Examined by Magdi Elhag
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Patent number: 11223927Abstract: One or more features of a tracking device can be disabled if the tracking device is lost. A tracking device is associated with a first mobile device, which can remotely control the tracking device via a tracking server. The tracking server receives an instruction from the first mobile device to disable a feature of the tracking device. The tracking server also receives a notification from a second mobile device that the second mobile device is within a communication range of the tracking device. In response to receiving the instruction and the notification, the tracking server transmits the instruction for the tracking device to disable the feature to the second mobile device. The tracking device receives the instruction to disable the feature from the second mobile device. In response to receiving the instruction to disable the feature, the tracking device disables the feature according to the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventor: Dan Danknick
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Patent number: 11219033Abstract: Disclosed is an intelligent frequency-shift anti-interference autonomous communication method based on electromagnetic environment learning, applied to an intelligent frequency-shift anti-interference autonomous communication system based on electromagnetic environment learning. The method comprises a communication link establishing process and an intelligent frequency-shift anti-interference process in the communication process. In the communication link establishing process, a communication initiator initiates communication to a communication responder, and the communication initiator and the communication responder perform frequency point matching, and finally negotiate to establish a communication connection.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsInventors: Yulong Zou, Yunlong Ma, Jia Zhu, Haiyan Guo, Han Gao
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Patent number: 11219025Abstract: Provided in various embodiments are a method by which a D2D terminal transmits a reference signal (RS) for a PDoA in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor. Disclosed are a method by which a D2D terminal transmits a reference signal (RS) for a PDoA, and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: determining, on the basis of the maximum value of a difference between indexes of subcarriers of a resource block for the transmission of a reference signal (RS), an index set for RS mapping among preconfigured index sets; mapping the RS to the subcarriers of the resource block having indexes corresponding to each of the indexes included in the index set for the RS mapping; and transmitting the resource block to which the RS is mapped, wherein the preconfigured index sets include indexes in which differences between two pairs of indexes are not the same for each number of indexes.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Myeongjin Kim, Sangrim Lee
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Patent number: 11212805Abstract: This application provides a terminal mode obtaining method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal device, at least two types of terminal information comprising terminal information of terminal devices that can use a shared resource pool, where the shared resource pool is shared by the terminal devices in at least two types of terminal modes, and the terminal information includes a terminal mode and a terminal type; receiving control information sent by a second terminal device, where the control information indicates that the second terminal device sends data on a first time-frequency resource in a first time period in the shared resource pool; and determining, based on the control information and the terminal information, a terminal mode that is of the second terminal device and that exists when the second terminal device sends data on the first time-frequency resource.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhenwei Lu, Yi Shi, Deping Liu
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Patent number: 11206530Abstract: To enable quick execution of pairing among devices with saving user's effort when grouping three or more communication devices. Group list information indicating a device selected as a device capable of wireless communication and as a device capable of corresponding to a group that performs communication is generated or acquired. For example, a master device generates the group list information and a slave device receives and acquires the group list information. Then, pairing processing of setting a own device and a communication device indicated in the group list information to be wireless communication targets to each other is performed by reference to the group list information.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11197127Abstract: A method of determining a physical location for an address. The method includes receiving from a first global positioning system on a vehicle a first set of global positioning data indicative of a vehicle location. The method may also receive from a second global positioning system on a portable electronic device a second set of global positioning data indicative of a portable electronic device location. The method may also receive a set of location metadata associated with a picture. The method determines a residence location from the first set of global positioning data, the second set of global positioning data, or the set of location metadata. The method then associates the physical location to the address.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11182383Abstract: A data collection system that provides the means to collect, store and make data available for a location analytics inference pipeline. The system incorporates a feedback mechanism enabling algorithms produced from the inference pipeline to drive the collection strategy to yield higher data quality and to produce reference data for model validation.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: PLACED, LLCInventors: David Shim, Brad Bicknell, George Varghese, Nick Gerner, Weilie Yi
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Patent number: 11172433Abstract: A network search display method for a terminal device and the terminal device, where the method includes obtaining, by the terminal device, a network search instruction instructing the terminal device to start searching for a network, searching, by the terminal device, a network frequency band in a first network standard for an available network according to the network search instruction, and displaying, by the terminal device to the user, the available network found in the network frequency band in the first network standard. Hence, the method and the terminal device improve user experience.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaojian Liu, Yinqing Jiang, Bei Dai, Zhe Li, Haoping Guo
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Patent number: 11166282Abstract: Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), radio access network (RAN) central unit (RCU) and methods for radio resource control (RRC) are generally described herein. A RAN distributed unit (RDU) at an eNB may communicate with an RCU of a cloud RAN to cooperatively perform RRC functionality for the eNB 104. The RDU 105 may receive a request for an RRC connection from a User Equipment (UE), and may request global load information from the RCU. The RDU may determine whether to establish the requested RRC connection based on the global load information when a response from the RCU is received before a predetermined time. The RDU may determine whether to establish the requested RRC connection based on local load information when the response from the RCU is not received before the predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Min Huang, Feng Yang, Xu Zhang, Alexander Sirotkin
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Patent number: 11160047Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are provided to determine motion information associated with a mobile device. A plurality of signal propagation time parameters are obtained or determined. Each signal propagation time parameter is associated with a respective observation position of the mobile device and a respective installation position a radio device. Each signal propagation time parameter is representative of a respective signal propagation time value of radio signal(s) traveling between the respective observation position and the respective installation position. For each of the installation positions of the radio devices, respective point coordinates are determined that represent the respective installation position of the respective radio device, at least partially based on the signal propagation time parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Here Global B.V.Inventors: Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Marko Luomi, Petri Rauhala
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Patent number: 11153239Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for enhancing a first media item through the addition of a supplemental second media item. A user may provide a request to enhance a selected media item, and in response, an enhancement system retrieves and presents a curated collection of supplemental content to be added to the media, to the user. The user may review the curated collection of supplemental content, for example by providing a tactile input to scroll through the curated collection of content.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Manny Jerrold Adler, Jonathan Brody, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Glenne Christiaansen, Kirk Ouimet, Kameron Sheffield, Haibo Zhao, Zhuangtian Zhao
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Patent number: 11129064Abstract: A method of activating and deactivating a secondary cell and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: a terminal device receives first indication information for indicating the terminal device to activate or deactivate a secondary cell of the terminal device sent by network device at a first starting time; the terminal device receives second indication information for indicating the terminal device to activate or deactivate the secondary cell sent by the network device at a second starting time later than the first starting time, herein the terminal device does not accomplish the activation or deactivation of the secondary cell according to the first indication information at the second starting time; after the second starting time, the terminal device determines to activate or deactivate the secondary cell only according to the first indication information or the second indication information, according to a preset rule.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Jia Shen, Cong Shi
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Patent number: 11125851Abstract: A method, electronic device and apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of fingerprints. Each fingerprint is determined by a respective radio node. One or more respective signals are sent by one or more respective radio nodes surrounding the respective radio node. Each fingerprint comprises a respective piece of position information that, is indicative of the respective location of the radio node that determined the fingerprint. Each fingerprint further comprises at least one respective piece of identifier information associated with and uniquely identifying the respective one or more radio nodes surrounding the respective radio node. The method also includes generating a radio map based at least on the fingerprints; determining a further radio measurement for a current location of the electronic device; and determining the position of the electronic device based at least on the determined further radio measurement and the generated radio map.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Here Global B.V.Inventor: Muhammad Irshan Khan
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Patent number: 11128416Abstract: This application provides a feedback information transmission method and an apparatus. An example method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, M data blocks corresponding to control information of N downlink control channels, where the M data blocks are carried on a same carrier, N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; determining, by the terminal device, a target resource; and sending, by the terminal device, feedback information for the M data blocks on the target resource.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ting Wang, Shengyue Dou, Yuanjie Li
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Patent number: 11057801Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a source base station. The source base station comprises a processing circuitry that generates a user equipment packet duplication status. The user equipment packet duplication status includes information on the status of uplink packet duplication performed by a user equipment with the source base station and at least one further base station. The information on the status of uplink packet duplication is per uplink radio bearer, one or more uplink radio bearers being established between the user equipment and the source base station. The source base station further comprises a transmitter that transmits the user equipment packet duplication status to a target base station which is the target of a handover from the source base station performed for the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Rikin Shah, Ming-Hung Tao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
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Patent number: 11057799Abstract: A network entity is configured to control a handover of a user equipment from a serving base station to a candidate target base station of a mobile communication network. The serving base station provides at least a first slice of a first slice type, and the candidate target base station provides at least a second slice of a second slice type. The user equipment is registered to the first slice of the serving base station. The network entity includes a processor configured to control, in response to a handover trigger, the handover of the user equipment on the basis of a requested slice type and the second slice type provided by the candidate target base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qing Wei, Ă–mer Bulakci, Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Riccardo Trivisonno, Chenghui Peng
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Patent number: 11032432Abstract: This invention relates to a method for Core Network (CN) controlled traffic transmission in a dual/multiple-connectivity system. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a request containing information about a status of dual/multiple connectivity from the radio access network node; determining and providing a policy on a usage of dual/multiple connectivity to the radio access network node. This invention also relates to a system of Core Network (CN) controlled traffic transmission for a dual/multiple-connectivity, an apparatus for Core Network (CN) controlled traffic transmission in a dual/multiple-connectivity system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium with executable instructions for executing the method.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Yang Shen, Weixing Wang, Jing He, Xiang Xu
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Patent number: 11026054Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to reduce human burdens in setting work for a watch-over system, the information processing apparatus including: a determination unit that determines whether or not a position of a target is within a reference region, the reference region being a geographic region; an extraction unit that extracts a reference region candidate as a candidate for the reference region; and an output unit that outputs information related to the extracted reference region candidate in association with a reference condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Miyahara, Yuji Kitazawa, Satoshi Suzuno
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Patent number: 11012388Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for enhancing a first media item through the addition of a supplemental second media item. A user may provide a request to enhance a selected media item, and in response, an enhancement system retrieves and presents a curated collection of supplemental content to be added to the media, to the user. The user may review the curated collection of supplemental content, for example by providing a tactile input to scroll through the curated collection of content.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Manny Jerrold Adler, Jonathan Brody, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Glenne Christiaansen, Kirk Ouimet, Kameron Sheffield, Haibo Zhao, Zhuangtian Zhao
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Patent number: 11006336Abstract: A method for cell selection and/or cell reselection handling includes: performing, by a user equipment, a cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure wherein both a first radio cell and a second radio cell fulfill a cell selection criterion with the first radio cell being prioritized relative to the second radio cell; attempting, by the user equipment, to connect to a public land mobile network using a random access channel of a first base station entity, and failing to connect to the public land mobile network using the random access channel of the first base station entity; and performing, by the user equipment, a modified cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure, under unchanged radio conditions, whereby the user equipment attempts to connect to the public land mobile network using a random access channel of the second base station entity.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AGInventors: Olaf Zingler, Axel Klatt