Patents Examined by Margaret G Mastrodonato
  • Patent number: 11856133
    Abstract: User profile data of a caller and time-stamped event data from one or more data sources are received. An incoming call initiated by a caller device of the caller is detected, and device data associated with the caller device that includes a geolocation is received. In response to an initiation of the incoming call, an inference framework is applied to infer a situational context of the caller based on an analysis of the time-stamped event data, the user profile data of the caller, and the device data. The contextual information for the situational context of the caller is sent to the recipient device for presentation via the recipient device. Feedback of a call recipient is received from the recipient device following the presentation. Accordingly, one or more inference rules of the inference framework are modified via a machine-learning algorithm to generate a modified inference framework based on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Parag Garg
  • Patent number: 11849335
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for accurately determining actual and prospective location(s) of radio(s) located in a structure and controlled by a shared spectrum system. By more accurately knowing the location(s) of the radios, the shared spectrum system can more efficiently allocate maximum transmission power(s) to the radio(s), enhance corresponding radio coverage area(s), and/or diminish interference to other radio(s) and/or primary user(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Khalid W. Al-Mufti, Michael Gregory German, Ariful Hannan
  • Patent number: 11849338
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing cellular network enhancements may utilize sensors mounted on or within a cellular base stations to collect information concerning environmental and/or shelter conditions. The collected information may be used by processing devices to predict a future load on a cellular network and may be used to optimize the number of channels needed for a particular base station. The collected information may also be transmitted to electronic devices in a cell coverage area to inform users of the electronic devices of the detected environmental and/or shelter conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Cameron Byrne
  • Patent number: 11842514
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting a pose of an object is described. An augmented reality display device accesses first sensor data from an image sensor and a depth sensor of the augmented reality display device. The first sensor data includes a first plurality of images of an object and corresponding depth data relative to the augmented reality display device and the object. The augmented reality display device detects first features corresponding to the object by applying a convolutional neural network to the first sensor data, forms a plurality of training clusters based on the first features, and stores the plurality of training clusters in a training database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: William Hoff
  • Patent number: 11825437
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices may assist in reducing signaling load that occur based on paging and handover. Methods, systems, and devices may be based on UE states, a radio access network registration area (RRA) or tracking/paging area with different architectural approaches (e.g., hierarchical or distributed), dynamic RRA management, radio access network based paging, and radio access network based user equipment (UE) mobility management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal M. Adjakple, Qing Li, Joseph M. Murray, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11812322
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for configuring Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources of neighboring cells for inter-cell mobility are provided. One method may include providing, by a network node, at least one reporting configuration to one or more user equipment. The reporting configuration is based on at least one of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks. The method may also include receiving at least one measurement report comprising measurement results when and as specified by the at least one reporting configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ahmad Awada, Timo Koskela, Jorma Kaikkonen, Jedrzej Stanczak, Ingo Viering
  • Patent number: 11800482
    Abstract: A mobile transceiver for asset tracking having route monitoring and method of operation are provided. In one aspect, the method comprises: determining a location of the mobile transceiver using the satellite receiver; determining whether the determined location deviates from a planned route; and sending an alert to an asset tracking service when the determined location deviates from the planned route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jasmin Mulaosmanovic, Robert Joseph Lombardi, Brian Thomas Wells, Sergio Javier Berriz
  • Patent number: 11778430
    Abstract: A text messaging system that allows messaging apps to send one or more layer identifiers that can specify content for a layer and Z depth of that layer relative to other layers in a text message transcript such as a sent message layer and a received message layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bartosz Ciechanowski, Bhaskar P. Sarma, William R. Dahlberg, Eugene Bistolas, Olivier Gutknecht, Nathaniel Begeman
  • Patent number: 11775800
    Abstract: Training neural networks to recognize matching items requires large data sets and long training times. Conversely, training a neural network with triplets of similar objects instead of triplets of identical objects relaxes constraints on the size and content of the data set, making training easier. Moreover, the notion of “similarity” can be almost arbitrary, making it possible to train the neural network to associate objects that aren't visually similar. For instance, the neural network can be trained to associate a suit with a tie, which is not possible with training on identical objects. And because the neural network is trained to recognize similar items, it can also recognize unfamiliar items if they are similar enough to the training data. This is a technical improvement over other neural networks, which can only recognize identical items, and over collaborative filtering systems, which can only recognize items for which they have enough data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Painted Dog, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Aizawa, Jared Max Browarnik
  • Patent number: 11778418
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments estimate a location of a first wireless device based on signals received from the wireless device from two other wireless devices. To combine estimates of the two wireless devices, the two wireless devices share a definition of a plurality of geographic regions. A first set of expected phase differences for the plurality of regions are determined for a first of the two wireless devices, and a second set of expected phase differences for the plurality of regions are determined for a second of the two wireless devices. Based on these two sets of expected phase differences, each of the two devices estimate a position of the first wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Neal Dante Castagnoli, Shmuel Shaffer
  • Patent number: 11770751
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a request for conditional handover from a source node. The method may also include sending a conditional handover request acknowledgment message in response to the request. The method may further include sending a conditional handover cancellation message to a source node. The conditional cancellation message may include a genuine cancellation or a modification-related cancellation. Further, the method may include receiving a response message from the source node in response to the conditional handover cancellation message. In addition, the method may include deciding to keep or release user equipment context based on the response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Ahmad Awada, Krzysztof Kordybach, Jedrzej Stanczak, Jean-Michel Pugeat, Tero Henttonen, Ingo Viering
  • Patent number: 11768917
    Abstract: A detection modeling system performs a distribution analysis to alert to model degradation. The detection modeling system may have a distribution analysis module configured to perform an alerting process in conjunction with a processing device. The distribution analysis module may select, by the processing device, model metrics for analysis, the model metrics being a measure of a parameter associated with the analytical model and determine normal distributions for model metric results for each of the selected model metrics. The detection modeling system may further receive model metric values for each of the selected model metric, compare, by the processing device, the model metric values to the normal distributions for model metric results for each of the received model metric value, and alert, by the processing device, to model degradation of the analytical model based on the comparison of the model metric values to the normal distributions for model metric results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weichen Wang, Eliza Salkeld, Shanna Hayes, Shuyan Lu
  • Patent number: 11769330
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for implementing an automated analytics for insuring compliance for a thermographic protocol for subjects seeking a temperature check, perhaps for entrance or access to a controlled space or facility. The automated video analytics utilize one or more cameras to detect thermography compliance violations based on whether the subject is perspiring, dehydrated, recently consumed a beverage, has exposed skin, excessive clothing, the amount and type of activity before getting screened, and/or the external and internal temperatures at the controlled facility associated with the subject. Furthermore, the automated video analytics may create a non-compliance score and/or control a timer for a non-compliance detection. Also, short and long term collected data may be analyzed for compliance to guidelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Pietro Russo, Sven Rebien, Peter L. Venetianer
  • Patent number: 11770797
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing delivery of messages to mobile device users, the method comprising receiving a message to be sent to a client application executable at a mobile device of a user, along with an associated time constraint and an associated geographic constraint; determining a current time at the mobile device and a current geographic location of the mobile device via a communication network; determining, upon receiving the current geographic location of the mobile device and the current time of the mobile device, whether the current geographic location of the mobile device complies with the associated geographic constraint for the message to be sent to the client application and determining whether the current time of the mobile device complies with the associated time constraint for the message to be sent to the client application; and sending, when the current geographic location of the mobile device is determined to comply with the associated geographic constraint and when the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Ferrara, Bryce Barrand
  • Patent number: 11758500
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include methods performed by a network node of a radio access network (RAN). Such embodiments can include establishing a connection with a user equipment (UE) in a cell served by the network node, and determining that the UE is engaged in unauthorized aerial operation. Unauthorized operation can include various UE operational conditions. Such embodiments can also include, based on determining the unauthorized aerial operation, performing at least one of the following operations: restricting the performance of the connection; and sending the UE a message comprising an indication that the connection will be released, and one or more conditions that the UE must meet before attempting to reestablish the connection. Embodiments also include complementary methods performed by one or more core network nodes and/or functions, as well as various network nodes and/or functions that are configured to perform various disclosed methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhenhua Zou, Mattias Bergström, Xingqin Lin, Helka-Liina Määttanen, Henrik Rydén, Magnus Stattin
  • Patent number: 11758440
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may initiate a broadcast or multicast (broadcast/multicast) application associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) while the UE is in a standalone mode for a second RAT; switch from the second RAT to the first RAT based at least in part on initiating the broadcast/multicast application; and switch from the first RAT to the second RAT based at least in part on failing to detect a communication associated with the broadcast/multicast application using the first RAT. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Brian Clarke Banister, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt
  • Patent number: 11758041
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include one or more of identifying a calling device number of a calling device, matching the calling device number with one or more of a plurality of enhanced call content profiles, selecting, based on a call identifier, one of the enhanced call content profiles comprising enhanced call content intended for one or more call recipient device numbers, and forwarding the enhanced call content associated with the selected enhanced call content profile to one of the call recipient devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Murphy, Benjamin Michael Lavigne, Murtuza Qutbuddin Saifee, Scott Dennis Hambuchen, Robert Collin Seely
  • Patent number: 11751660
    Abstract: A production method of a digitized artificial nail for a nail of a user includes the steps of: (a) scanning the nail of the user to construct an irregular digitized user nail model; (b) data sampling to convert the irregular digitized user nail model into a regular digitized artificial nail model which is a regular three dimensional grid surface, and topology deformation of the regular three dimensional grid surface to form a digitized artificial nail model; (c) matching an artificial nail shape selected by the user with the digitized artificial nail model to obtain a desired artificial nail model; (d) customizing the digitized artificial nail model; and (e) three dimensional printing a digitized artificial nail in response to the digitized artificial nail model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Xunshi Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jing Zhang, Biqing Lu, Yong Chen, Tiantian Wang, Weigang Jin, Ming Chen, Haiyan Feng
  • Patent number: 11736897
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments estimate a location of a first wireless device based on signals received from the wireless device from two other wireless devices. To combine estimates of the two wireless devices, the two wireless devices share a definition of a plurality of geographic regions. A first set of expected phase differences for the plurality of regions are determined for a first of the two wireless devices, and a second set of expected phase differences for the plurality of regions are determined for a second of the two wireless devices. Based on these two sets of expected phase differences, each of the two devices estimate a position of the first wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Neal Dante Castagnoli, Shmuel Shaffer
  • Patent number: 11736953
    Abstract: A multi-operator radio node for a communication system that supports sharing a common antenna array while supporting multiple service providers. The multi-operator radio node includes signal processing circuits for each supported service provider. Each signal processing circuit is configured to receive communication signals for a supported service provider to be distributed through a common antenna array to wireless client devices. Each signal processing circuit includes a modem that processes the received communication signals for spectrum of its service provider to provide signal streams to be distributed to co-located antenna elements in the antenna array. Summation circuits are provided at the front end of each RF chain circuit to combine signal streams of the spectrum of the service providers directed to the same antenna element in the antenna array to form signal beams in individual frequencies of the service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin Imanilov, Andrey Kobyakov