Patents Examined by Marcos L. Torres
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Patent number: 11856506Abstract: A user equipment that communicates with a base station in a mobile communication system includes: a receiving unit that receives a change message of system information from the base station; and a control unit that requests the base station to transmit the system information when the receiving unit has received the change message and then has not received the system information.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
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Patent number: 11849401Abstract: The minimization of the amount of power consumed by an electronic device in acquiring or maintaining network connectivity with a network may extend the battery life of the electronic device. When the electronic device has established a communication connection with a wireless access point, the electronic device cycles a network interface controller of the electronic device between a power on state and a power off state without terminating the communication connection. Accordingly, the electronic device powers on a main processor of the electronic device when the network interface controller detects a beacon during the power on state that indicates the wireless access point has a buffered data frame for the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ranveer Chandra, John Charles Krumm, Xia Zhou, Stefan Saroiu
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Patent number: 11841924Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a software tool that engages in an image matching technique. In one implementation, the software tool (i) accesses a set of two-dimensional drawings representative of a construction project, (ii) determines multiple candidate pixel regions for each of the two-dimensional drawings, (iii) compares the candidate pixel regions to identify a set of landmark pixel regions that appear in the set of two-dimensional drawings at a threshold rate, (iv) compare a first subset of landmark pixel regions from a first two-dimensional drawing with a second subset of landmark pixel regions from a second two-dimensional drawing to identify matching landmark pixel regions, (v) project the first and second two-dimensional drawings onto a projection space such that a maximum number of the matching landmark pixel regions align, and (vi) determine an extent of similarity between the projected first and second two-dimensional drawings in the projection space.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Procore Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Lei Wu
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Patent number: 11818651Abstract: Best links for wireless clients may be provided. A computing device may receive, from a client device, a request to join a network. Then, in response to receiving the request to join the network, initial characteristics of the client device may be evaluated. Next, an initial plurality of links list may be provided to the client device in response to evaluating the initial characteristics of the client device. Subsequent characteristics of the client device may then be evaluated. An updated plurality of links list may be provided to the client device in response to evaluating the subsequent characteristics of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Malcolm Muir Smith, Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton
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Patent number: 11812318Abstract: A system and method in a user equipment (UE) for transferring an emergency session from a first network to a second network. The method includes transmitting a first registration request message to the second network; receiving a registration reject message from the second network; detecting the emergency session between the UE and the first network is ongoing; transmitting a second registration request message comprising an emergency registration request to the second network; and receiving a registration accept message for the emergency session.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker
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Patent number: 11812347Abstract: A method and a system include receiving a first signal value generated by a biosignal sensor coupled to the first client device, receiving one or more second signal values corresponding to a respective sensor reading or environmental condition associated with the first client device, determining a total score based on a first score and one or more second scores determined based on the first and the one or more second signal values, selecting a first state of the plurality of states based on a ranking of total scores of the plurality of states, and causing a display of a first notification associated with a first user-selectable element corresponding to the first state on the first client device.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Chunjong Park, Fannie Liu, Yu Jiang Tham
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Patent number: 11811488Abstract: Access, mobility management and regulatory services are supported for satellite access to a Fifth Generation (5G) core network. A coverage area, e.g., country, region, multiple countries, and international areas, are divided into fixed virtual cells having well defined geographic boundaries and fixed tracking areas. Information for the virtual cells and/or tracking areas and associated with one or more public land mobile networks (PLMNs) may be provided to a user equipment (UE). The UE may obtain its position, e.g., using a satellite positioning system, and determine the serving virtual cell or tracking area in which it is located. The UE may perform registration with a serving core network in a serving PLMN associated with the serving virtual cell or tracking area. Regulatory services, such as emergency (EM) calls, lawful interception (LI), wireless emergency alerts (WEA) may be provided based on the serving virtual cell or tracking area.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Stephen William Edge
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Patent number: 11792882Abstract: Optionally, when the apparatus 1200 is a chip or a circuit, the functions/implementation processes of the receiving unit 1201 and the sending unit 1202 may be alternatively implemented by a pin, a circuit, or the like. Optionally, when the apparatus 1200 is a chip, the memory 1103 may be a storage unit in the chip, for example, a register or a cache. Certainly, when the apparatus 1200 is a mobility management network element, the memory 1103 may be a storage unit that is in the mobility management network element and that is outside a chip. This is not specifically limited in this embodiment of this application.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hao Jing, Zaifeng Zong, Fenqin Zhu
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Patent number: 11770673Abstract: A method of transaction processing provides for obtaining gesture parameters, deriving a gesture area from the gesture parameters, querying a point of interest (POI) database system for a matching set of POIs, wherein a POI of the matching set of POIs is a matching POI matching the gesture area when a POI location of the POI and the gesture area meet a matching requirement, providing the matching set of POIs, or information thereof, to the initiator, identifying a selected POI from among the matching set of POIs, identifying a potential respondent device of a potential respondent associated with the selected POI, determining whether the potential respondent is to proceed with a transaction with the initiator and be a respondent, wherein the respondent interacts via a respondent device, obtaining transaction details from the initiator device, the respondent device, or both, and processing the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Yellcast, Inc.Inventors: Ganesan Venkatakrishnan, Peter Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby, Peter Negulescu
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Patent number: 11770675Abstract: Interacting between users of mobile devices is provided by initiating a desired interaction at a first user device using a gesture sensed by the first user device, determining a gesture area, submitting a desired interaction request for interaction with associated users within the gesture area, and sending a notification to user devices indicating the desired interaction of the first user with one or more users of a local subset, wherein the notification identifies the first user with an identifier independent of identifiers used by the first user outside of interactions with a remote server.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: YellCast, Inc.Inventors: Ganesan Venkatakrishnan, William Foster, Peter Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby
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Patent number: 11765278Abstract: A system for preserving charging event messages in a mobile telecommunications network when a charging server is unavailable includes a message broker comprising persistent storage. The system also includes a network element that generates a charging event message, attempts to send the charging event message to a charging server, and writes the charging event message to the message broker in response to determining that the attempt to send the charging event message to the charging server has failed. The system also includes a replay agent that subscribes to the message broker for notifications associated with the charging server, receives a notification from the message broker about the charging event message, reads the charging event message from the message broker, and causes the charging event message to be sent to the charging server when the charging server is available.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rama Krishna Prasad Mangalaparthi, Anthony Raj, Ronald Mark Parker, Michael Anthony Brown
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Patent number: 11751136Abstract: Disclosed is a method for power optimization of a terminal. The method includes that a user equipment (UE) detects an activation signal indicating a control signal to be sent after the activation signal and receives the control signal according to the activation signal. The UE is configured to enter a sleep state in response to determining that the activation signal is not detected or determining that no required control signal exists.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: ZTE CORPORATION, CHANG'AN UNIVERSITYInventors: Hui Xu, Chen Lu, Zijiang Ma, Zhongwei Ji, Yimu Hu, Xiangmo Zhao, Fei Hui, Jianfeng Ding, Xiaoquan Hua, Yaying Wang
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Patent number: 11743820Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for reporting transmission for discontinuous reception. One method includes determining whether a symbol occurs within a discontinuous reception on duration time period. The method includes, in response to determining that the symbol occurs within the discontinuous reception on duration time period, determining whether to transmit a report. The method includes transmitting the report regardless of whether a discontinuous reception on duration timer is running.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Ravi Kuchibhotla
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Patent number: 11737024Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for detecting indication information, including: determining a carrier/narrowband position and a time-domain position where indication information is located; in which the indication information is configured to indicate whether a user equipment (UE) monitors a paging message or a downlink control channel that indicates the paging message, on associated one or more paging occasions (POs); and detecting the indication information on the determined carrier/narrowband position and the time-domain position, and determining, according to the indication information, whether to monitor the paging message or the downlink control channel on the one or more POs.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Feifei Sun, Miao Zhou, Jingxing Fu, Di Su, Chen Qian, Yingjie Zhang
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Patent number: 11736606Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a method for controlling a screen of a mobile terminal, and an apparatus, to resolve a prior-art problem of relatively low accuracy of controlling a screen of a mobile terminal to be turned on or turned off. The method includes: obtaining, by a mobile terminal, a current motion parameter of the mobile terminal, and determining whether the motion parameter meets a pick-up parameter threshold or a put-down parameter threshold; when the motion parameter meets the pick-up parameter threshold, determining that the mobile terminal is picked up; obtaining a sight line parameter of a user; and when it is determined that a visual center of the user is on a screen of the mobile terminal and the screen is in an off state, switching the screen to an on state.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Changxue Lu, Jinhua Bai, Liudong Xiong, Jinsong Zhou, Yide Wei
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Patent number: 11711764Abstract: A wireless communication system including a radio, a processing circuit including a processor and wake on radio circuitry. The wake on radio circuitry uses programmed descriptors to autonomously schedule transitioning into and out of sleep mode to periodically awaken and turn on the radio and perform at least one radio frequency deterministic function while the processor remains in a low power state. The deterministic functions may include a receive function, a transmit function, or a combination of both. The descriptors may be programmed according to any one of different scheduling modes supported by different communication protocols including a timeslot mode and a constant-interval mode. The wake on radio circuitry includes a scheduler that coordinates with protocol circuitry of the radio for performing one or more deterministic functions. The scheduler may program a sleep controller for scheduling sleep modes between communication sessions for performing the deterministic functions.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Khurram Waheed, Steven Michael Bosze
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Patent number: 11706605Abstract: A system for identifying local emergency response resources and sending emergency response to the location of a third party communication device by identifying the location of a third party communication device based on the device's geospatial placement, street address associated with the communication device, user designated address, or IP address, and from the location, using a National Emergency Telephone Number System (NETNS) to identify an emergency dispatch office location nearest to and that serves the area where the third party communication device is located, communicating the location of the third party communication device to the local dispatch office, and communicating with that emergency dispatch office the nature of the emergency so that the user of the third party communication device can get assistance.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Inventor: Patricia Busby-Robinson
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Patent number: 11706713Abstract: A method for use in a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU). The method comprises: receiving, using an active receiver, system information comprising a first system information set, wherein the first system information set is currently valid for the WTRU; storing the system information; deactivating the active receiver and activating a passive receiver; determining whether a difference between a first parameter in the BSSI and a first parameter in the first system information set is greater than a threshold value, wherein on a condition that the difference is greater than the threshold value, reactivating the active receiver to receive a second system information set as a currently valid system information set for the WTRU.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: INTEGRATED PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Hussain E. Elkotby, Ravikumar V. Pragada, Tanbir Haque, Patrick Cabrol, Anantharaman Balasubramanian, Marian Rudolf, William E. Lawton
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Patent number: 11700578Abstract: A method for downlink control signaling detection, applied to a terminal, includes: receiving awakening control signaling sent by a base station, the awakening control signaling including indication information for the terminal to perform control signaling detection; and performing the control signaling detection according to the awakening control signaling.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yajun Zhu
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Patent number: 11700566Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a mobility management network element in a first network, first information from an access network device in the first network, where the first information indicates a handover of a terminal device from the first network to a second network, and sending, by the mobility management network element in the first network, second information to a mobility management network element in a third network based on the first information, where the second information instructs the mobility management network element in the third network to send a handover request to a mobile switching network element in the second network, and the handover request requests to hand over a voice service of the terminal device to the second network.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiwei Chong, Xiaobo Wu