Patents Examined by Mark G. Pannell
  • Patent number: 11412442
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods and systems for a service discovery gateway to interoperate with a client device. The service discovery gateway receives a first message, originating from the client device. The message comprising at least a service discovery query to the service discovery gateway. Based at least in part on receiving the first message, the service discovery gateway sends a second message comprising at least a first indication of at least one service provider corresponding to the service discovery query. The service discovery gateway determines a condition is met based at least in part on an elapsed time associated with the second message. The service discovery gateway sends a third message based at least in part on the determining, the third message comprising at least a second indication of at least one service provider corresponding to the service discovery query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Niranjan M M, Nagaraj Kenchaiah
  • Patent number: 11412570
    Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting information on cast type by a first apparatus (9010), and the first apparatus (9010) supporting the same. The method may include: initiating a sidelink service with a second apparatus (9020) based on a specific cast type; and transmitting information on the specific cast type related to the sidelink service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Jung, Heejin Kim, Seungmin Lee, Youngdae Lee
  • Patent number: 11412389
    Abstract: A communication control device including: a management unit configured to manage one or more first wireless communication devices; and an information exchange unit configured to exchange, with another communication control device that manages one or more second wireless communication devices, information related to frequency sharing by the second wireless communication devices. The information related to frequency sharing includes information related to a frequency band in which high-priority access can be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11399358
    Abstract: A radio network node (12) in a radio access network (RAN1) and a method therein for Paging Policy Differentiation (PPD). The radio network node receives from a core network (CN1) a Downlink (DL) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) associated with a wireless device (10). The DL PDU is comprised in a Quality of Service (QoS)-flow, is originated from a respective service and comprises a Paging Policy Indicator (PPI) associated with the respective service. The radio network node extracts the PPI by means of a Central Unit User Plane (CU-UP) (12b). By means of the CU-UP (12b), the radio network node informs a Central Unit Control Plane (CU-CP) (12a) about the PPI. Further, by means of the CU-CP, the radio network node triggers paging of the wireless device. Furthermore, the radio network node pages the wireless device (10) according to the PPI associated with the respective service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Matteo Fiorani, Paul Schliwa-Bertling
  • Patent number: 11399340
    Abstract: A controller of a radio access network calculates physical path resource information which is resource information about physical paths between devices in the network, and abstract path resource information which expresses the physical path resource information in a representative manner. When receiving a request to create a slice, the controller determines whether a slice that satisfies a requested condition is creatable based on the abstract path resource information and, when determining that the slice that satisfies the requested condition can be created, creates the slice by selecting a physical path that satisfies the requested condition based on the physical path resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakura, Yukio Hirano, Takeshi Suehiro, Akiko Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 11395252
    Abstract: In various embodiments, crowd sourcing techniques are provided to enable RTT-based positioning of UE. To address issues of discovering which beacons (e.g., Wi-Fi APs, cellular base stations, BLE transmitters, etc.) support measurement of RTT (e.g., according to IEEE 802.11mc, 3GPP Release 16, etc.), beacon RTT capabilities may be crowd-sourced from UE and maintained by a cloud-based location platform in a beacon database (or more specifically, a RTT database portion thereof). To address the issue of determining physical antenna positions, RTT measurements may be crowd-sourced from UE for those beacons that are RTT capable, and used by a trilateration algorithm (e.g., a WLS multilateration algorithm) to determine physical antenna positions, which also may be maintained in the beacon database. Accuracy of the trilateration may be enhanced by obtaining raw GNSS measurements (e.g., psuedoranges) from the UE, and performing a cloud-based RTK GNSS position fix for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Skyhook Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Issakov, Larry V. Dodds, Robert J. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11395120
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and device for identifying a service entity in an Machine-to-Machine (M2M) system. The method for an M2M device for requesting a service includes transmitting a message requesting information on a service entity to a registry, obtaining the information on the service entity and using the service through the service entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jae Seung Song
  • Patent number: 11388772
    Abstract: The present invention relates to user equipment, an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. According to the present invention, the user equipment comprises a processing circuit, configured to: detect a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first bandwidth part of an unlicensed frequency band in a detection time of a discontinuous reception (DRX) period; and detect the PDCCH on a second bandwidth part of the unlicensed frequency band when the PDCCH is not detected on the first bandwidth part. By using the user equipment, the electronic device, the wireless communication method, and the storage medium in the present invention, a DRX mechanism of the user equipment operating on the unlicensed frequency band can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Bowen Cai, Tao Cui, Xiaofeng Tao
  • Patent number: 11381946
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an edge transfer according to the movement of a device are provided. The method includes receiving a handover decision and handover information from a network, when a device performs the handover and a network function virtualization instance of the source edge is transferred to the target edge. The method then transfers an M2M service instance of the source edge to an M2M edge node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Seung Song, Young Jin Na, Min Byeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11382133
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for intelligent wireless protocol optimization including receiving, by a processor, a request from a first media access controller to transmit a first data signal, transmitting, by the processor, a ready to send packet to the second media access controller in response to the second media access controller being currently transmitting a second data signal, transmitting the first data signal by the first media access controller, transmitting a clear to send packet by the second media access controller to the second media access controller in response to the transmitting of the first data signal by the first media access controller, and continuing transmission of the second data signal in response to a completion of the transmission of the first data signal by the first media controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi V. Thanayankizil, Steven Hartley
  • Patent number: 11373096
    Abstract: A method of training a predictor to predict a location of a computing device in an indoor environment incudes: receiving training data including strength of signals received from wireless access points at positions of an indoor environment, where the training data includes: a subset of labeled data including signal strength values and location labels; and a subset of unlabeled data including signal strength values and not including labels indicative of locations; training a variational autoencoder to minimize a reconstruction loss of the signal strength values of the training data, where the variational autoencoder includes encoder neural networks and decoder neural networks; and training a classification neural network to minimize a prediction loss on the labeled data, where the classification neural network generates a predicted location based on the latent variable, and where the encoder neural networks and the classification neural network form the predictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: NAVER CORPORATION, NAVER LABS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boris Chidlovskii, Leonid Antsfeld
  • Patent number: 11363449
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods to transfer user preferences for cellular wireless service associated credentials transferred from a source device to a target device. Transfer of credentials can include physically moving a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card between devices, transfer of cellular wireless service from a first SIM card at the source device to a second SIM card at the target device, and/or transfer of cellular wireless services for one or more electronic SIMs (eSIMs) from the source device to the target device. Preferences associated some or all of the transferred SIMs/eSIMs can be applied at the target device when certain matching criteria of the SIMs/eSIMs are satisfied. Exemplary matching criteria include matching identifiers, such as integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) values, mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) values, and/or mappings thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Anish Kumar Goyal, Li Li, Raj S. Chaugule, Vladimir M. Appel
  • Patent number: 11363650
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to globally unique temporary identity (GUTI) reallocation for cellular-Internet of thing (CIoT) are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a network, a paging associated with a mobile-terminated early data transmission (MT-EDT). The UE transmits, by the UE to the network, a data request in response to the paging. The UE receives, from the network in response to the data request, a message including a global unique temporary identifier (GUTI) and at least one of data associated with the paging or a connection release indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Soo Bum Lee, Adrian Edward Escott, Mahmoud Watfa, Anand Palanigounder, Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes
  • Patent number: 11363555
    Abstract: In a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) system, high-power customer premises equipment (HP-CPE) transmits a registration request to a spectrum access system (SAS), which determines a CPE device type for the HP-CPE and transmits a positive registration response to the HP-CPE. The HP-CPE transmits a grant request to the SAS, which transmits a positive grant response to the HP-CPE. The HP-CPE transmits a heartbeat request to the SAS, which relies on the CPE device type to approve the heartbeat request without relying on a corresponding Coordinated Periodic Activity among SASs (CPAS) process, and transmits a positive heartbeat response to the HP-CPE. In one method, the SAS determines the CPE device type using a database that maps FCC model numbers to device types. In another method, the registration request contains a field with the CPE device type. Both methods enable immediate HP-CPE authorization without the delay of a CPAS process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Lakhbir Singh
  • Patent number: 11363674
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for processing communications. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving first data from a first device and receiving second data from a second device, wherein the first data has a longer latency constraint than the second data. The method also comprises sending the first data over a network link to a processing node for processing the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Giulio Bottari, Fabio Cavaliere, Filippo Ponzini
  • Patent number: 11356805
    Abstract: A method for determining location of a target within an indoor environment, including the steps of: classifying a set of anchors having known locations within the indoor environment and a set of targets having unknown locations within the indoor environment, wherein each of the anchors and targets comprise hardware having sensors and wireless communication capabilities; creating a set of ordinal pair data sets comprising relative distances between each target and all anchors; ranking and aggregating the ordinal pair data sets to produce a set of dissimilarities that approximate distances; transforming the dissimilarities into estimated distances between each anchor and target using the known distances between the anchors as calibration; and inferring location of targets by formulating and solving a multidimensional unfolding optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mahesh K. Banavar, Jie Sun, Shandeepa Wickramasinghe
  • Patent number: 11343741
    Abstract: A data transmission method based on a mobile network, applied to a terminal configured with a primary card link for a primary subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a secondary card link for a secondary SIM card, includes: performing transmission quality evaluation on the primary card link when the primary card link is applied to perform data transmission of the mobile network to obtain a first transmission quality evaluation value; and compensating the data transmission of the mobile network performed by the primary card link through the secondary card link in response to that the first transmission quality evaluation value is lower than a transmission quality evaluation threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daliang Sun
  • Patent number: 11330508
    Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining sensory data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, a battery displaced within the housing, and circuitry displaced at least partially within the housing, the circuitry including an integrated circuit, an accelerometer, and a communications interface. The housing is formed from one or more of hardened plastic, metal, glass or composite. The circuitry further includes a vibration sensor. The communication interface enables communications with external network devices or a cloud server. The circuitry includes logic to perform operations including: receiving signals from one or more network devices; and parsing a first signal to identify (i) a unique identifier of a first network device of the one or more network devices, wherein the first network device transmitted the first signal, and (ii) determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value of the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NoCell Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Donald McKeefery, Frederick Thiel, Himanshu Patel
  • Patent number: 11317340
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for enabling access of an unconfigured device to a network hotspot device. The network hotspot device creates a first hotspot and a second hotspot. The method can include: in response to first access information of the first hotspot having been updated, disabling, by the network hotspot device, a connection between the first hotspot of the network hotspot device and the unconfigured device that has accessed the network hotspot device through the first hotspot; and in response to the unconfigured device accessing the second hotspot, sending, by the network hotspot device, the updated first access information to the unconfigured device through the second hotspot, wherein the unconfigured device is configured to access the first hotspot using the updated first access information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yuezhen Xiao, Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11310654
    Abstract: An electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile delivery and activation system is disclosed comprising a user equipment that includes an eSIM, a WIFI transceiver, a radio modem, and an application. The application is configured to detect that the eSIM is not initially provisioned with an eSIM profile, and in response to the detection, request, receive, and store via the WIFI transceiver a branding information handle from an over-the-air (OTA) platform in the eSIM, and reboot the eSIM and/or the radio modem. The radio modem is configured to receive the branding information handle stored in the eSIM after reboot, determine which subscription manager data preparation (SMDP+) server to access based on the handle, and obtain and configure the eSIM profile from the SMDP+ server into the eSIM. The radio modem is subsequently rebooted and configured to communicate with a carrier specific OTA platform to finalize activation of the eSIM profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Dhananjay Indurkar