Patents Examined by Marcos Batista
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Patent number: 11974181Abstract: A first terminal device obtains a first parameter related to a first air interface, and then determines, based on the first parameter, that first frequency information of a second air interface has a highest priority, where the first air interface is a radio interface between the first terminal device and a second terminal device, and the second air interface is a radio interface between the first terminal device and a network device.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenjie Peng, Jun Wang, Mingzeng Dai
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Patent number: 11968583Abstract: A data processing method, comprising: a terminal device (120) reports switching time capability to a network device (110), the switching time capability being used for data scheduling of the network device (110) to the terminal device (120). The switching time capability comprises: the switching time that the terminal device (120) is switched from a first network to a second network, and/or the switching time that the terminal device (120) is switched from the second network to the first network. The network device (110) comprises a first network device and/or a second network device. Also disclosed are another data processing method, a terminal device, a network device and a storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hai Tang
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Patent number: 11950164Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing, by a tracking system server, information identifying each of multiple first computing devices and a location of each computing device. The method includes receiving a request including an identifier for a second computing device and configuration instructions executable by the second computing device. The method includes determining a most recent location associated with the second computing device. The method includes identifying a computing device from the first computing devices based at least in part on the stored location of the computing device and the most recent location associated with the second computing device. The method includes sending, to the identified computing device, a forwarding request including the identifier for the second computing device and the configuration instructions. The identified computing device is configured to send the configuration instructions to the second computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Michael George Farley, Jose Pons Vega, Charles Y. Choi, Renu Janjam
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Patent number: 11943714Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for receiving a paging signal in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: determining index information indicating a wake up signal (WUS) resource; and monitoring a WUS on the basis of the determined index information, wherein, when a user equipment (UE) supports machine type communication (MTC), the index information indicating the WUS resource is determined on the basis of identification information of the UE, parameters related to a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle of the UE, information related to the number of paging narrowbands, and information related to the number of UE groups for the WUS.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seunggye Hwang, Changhwan Park, Joonkui Ahn, Sukhyon Yoon
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Patent number: 11933874Abstract: Provided is a secure ranging method capable of blocking access of a malicious user by preventing an attack by the malicious user when ranging is performed using an ultra-wideband (UWB). Also, provided is a method of increasing accuracy of ranging. A method of operating an electronic device for performing ranging by using a UWB in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting and receiving at least one frame for ranging, to and from at least one other electronic device; obtaining a first ranging value and a second ranging value, based on the at least one frame; and performing integrity checking, based on a result of comparing the first ranging value with the second ranging value.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sehee Han, Seongah Jeong, Kangjin Yoon, Haeyoung Jun
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Patent number: 11902850Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting network data for a plurality of cells of a cellular communication network, identifying a particular cell of the plurality of cells is in an un-responsive state, wherein the identifying is based on the network data, selecting a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices as UE test devices, forcing cell reselection attempts, handover attempts, or both, by the UE test devices to communicate with the particular cell, confirming the particular cell is in the un-responsive state based on failure of the cell reselection attempts or failure of the handover attempts, and communicating a restart signal from the processing system to cause the particular cell to restart to a responsive state. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski, David Ross Beppler
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Patent number: 11889331Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate autonomous user equipment beam failure recovery abort aspects. One example aspect is a baseband processor configured to perform operations including: establishing a connection with a downlink (DL) beam; detecting a beam failure of the DL beam; in response to the beam failure, executing at least one of: a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure or a candidate beam detection (CBD) procedure; detecting a recovery abort condition while executing the at least one of: the BFR procedure or the CBD procedure; aborting the at least one of: the BFR procedure or the CBD procedure, in response to detecting that the recovery abort condition is satisfied; and maintaining the connection with the DL beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sameh Eldessoki, Christian Hofmann, Panagiotis Botsinis
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Patent number: 11877200Abstract: A mobility management entity (MME) receives, from a wireless device, an attach request message indicating that the wireless device supports a first number of bearers. The MME selects a network gateway from a plurality of network gateways, based on a second number of bearers supported by the network gateway. The MME sends, to the network gateway, a create session request message for creating a session for the wireless device. The MME receives, from the network gateway, a create session response message confirming creation of the session.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Weihua Qiao, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Peyman Talebi Fard
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Patent number: 11864046Abstract: A network selection method includes executing, by a mobile terminal, a communication service using a first identification card, determining, by the mobile terminal, that the communication service interferes with a second identification card in the mobile terminal, and adjusting, by the mobile terminal, cell reselection information of the second identification card to reselect to a non-interfered-with cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Bao Zhang, Weilin Gong
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Patent number: 11843980Abstract: An apparatus and a method are described by which, upon preparing a handover of a terminal device in a source cell, mobility information and at least one connected slice network slice identifier identifying at least one network slice used by the terminal device is added to a terminal device history of the terminal device, and the terminal device history is sent to a target cell for the handover.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam, Ingo Viering, HÃ¥kon Helmers
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Patent number: 11838852Abstract: A method and apparatus for cell barring in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining whether system information block type 1 (SIB1) is acquired from a cell, considering the cell as barred, if the acquiring the SIB1 fails, determining whether the cell is a licensed cell or an unlicensed cell and excluding the cell and other cells on a same frequency with the cell as a candidate for cell selection or reselection for a pre-defined period, if the cell is a licensed cell and cell selection or reselection to intra-frequency cells is not allowed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Anil Agiwal
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Patent number: 11832113Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for displaying optimal locations for telecommunications equipment. In one embodiment, a method comprises simultaneously recording video footage and wireless signal strengths of a respective room in a plurality of rooms; storing the video footage and wireless signal strengths in a database; accessing the database and analyzing whether the video footage and wireless signal strengths include useful information; displaying one or more locations for telecommunications equipment on a floor plan of the respective room if the video footage and wireless signal strengths include useful information; and transmitting the video footage and wireless signal strengths to a technician if the video footage and wireless signal strengths do not include useful information.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Future Dial, Inc.Inventors: Dan Kikinis, George Huang
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Patent number: 11783365Abstract: A method and system for customizing a mobile application running on a mobile communication device of a user. In one implementation, the method includes providing the mobile application to the mobile communication device of the user, the mobile application having a generic platform; determining a special interest group (SIG) that is affiliated with the user; and customizing the generic platform of the mobile application based on information specific to the special interest group (SIG) that is affiliated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Michelle Fisher
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Patent number: 11785516Abstract: A mechanism for controlling service of a user equipment device (UE), including (i) predicting that the UE will move sequentially through multiple zones of coverage of an access node that operates on a different respective set of one or more frequency bands in each zone of coverage and that has a respective radio-frequency (RF) circuitry quality as to each frequency band, (ii) based on the predicting, determining an RF-circuitry-quality score of the access node as an aggregate of the RF-circuitry-qualities of the access node as to the frequency bands on which the access node operates in the multiple zones of coverage through which the UE is predicted to move, and (iii) before the predicted movement of the UE through the multiple zones of coverage occurs, proactively using the determined RF-circuitry-quality score of the access node as a basis to control whether the UE is served by the access node.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sprint Spectrum LLCInventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
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Patent number: 11778540Abstract: Provided are systems and methods including a secure sensor filtering capability within an BLE hub device capable of determining its geographic position and also capable of communicating directly with a cloud services application. The hub device periodically performs BLE scanning for advertisements from devices in proximity to the hub device but only collects and processes advertisement data from end nodes that match the filter requirements configured within the hub device while ignoring advertisements from any end nodes not matching the filter requirements configured within the hub device. In addition, digital leash and custody capabilities are provided with respect to the hub device such that improvements in connection with resource utilization (e.g. power, bandwidth, processor usage) may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Link Labs, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Zanski, Patrick Li
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Patent number: 11778424Abstract: Techniques for tracking an evacuation of a location in an environment that utilizes physical tokens to prove physical presence at the location are presented. The techniques include receiving data representing of subordinates of an evacuation facilitator; receiving physical token based location status information for at least one of the subordinates, where the physical token based location status information is based on electronic readings of the physical tokens; determining based on the physical token based location status information, a physical presence status at the location for the at least one of the subordinates; receiving evacuation status information for each of the at least one of the subordinates that has a physical presence status that indicates a presence at the location; and recording the evacuation status information for each of the at least one of the subordinates that has a physical presence status that indicates a presence at the location.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICEInventors: Jeffrey C. Johnson, Leonetta J. Jackson, Srinivasa R. Chappidi, Dongni S. Growney, Bijai T. Nidhiri, Danny Tan, Jini J. Thokalath, Gang Yin
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Patent number: 11763375Abstract: Aspects described herein may allow for auto-locating a user in a parking lot and/or automatically directing a user to recommended inventory. For example, a customer may capture an image of a vehicle, or a marker associated with a vehicle, in a parking lot. The image may be processed locally or at a server. A vehicle may be identified based on analysis of the image. Further, information regarding the user may be processed to determine another vehicle appropriate for a recommendation. For example, a prompt on a mobile device may suggest a popular model similar to the vehicle being viewed. The system may then provide directions (e.g., augmented reality directions) to the user to direct the user to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Geoffrey Dagley, Qiaochu Tang, Micah Price, Avid Ghamsari, Jason Hoover
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Patent number: 11743804Abstract: Provided are systems and methods including a secure sensor filtering capability within an BLE hub device capable of determining its geographic position and also capable of communicating directly with a cloud services application. The hub device periodically performs BLE scanning for advertisements from devices in proximity to the hub device but only collects and processes advertisement data from end nodes that match the filter requirements configured within the hub device while ignoring advertisements from any end nodes not matching the filter requirements configured within the hub device. In addition, digital leash and custody capabilities are provided with respect to the hub device such that improvements in connection with resource utilization (e.g. power, bandwidth, processor usage) may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Link Labs, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Zanski, Patrick Li
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Patent number: 11729703Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a first set of communication resources; transmits information identifying an allocation of at least one further communication resource in a shared channel; and transmits the remaining part of the minimum system information using the at least one further communication resource identified by the allocation.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Yassin Aden Awad
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Patent number: 11711731Abstract: A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a source base station of a terminal in a handover process, first data and a radio air interface protocol sequence number of a data unit used to carry the first data, where the first data includes data that is not acknowledged by a terminal for correct reception during data transmission between the source base station and the terminal. The method further includes sending, by the source base station, the first data and the radio air interface protocol sequence number to a target base station; where the core network connected to the target base station is different from the core network connected to the source base station.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingxing Hu, Qinghai Zeng, Rui Wang