Patents Examined by Moustapha Diaby
  • Patent number: 11985592
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining the validity of idle mode measurements. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for determining a validity of one or more idle mode measurements performed for a cellular communications network comprises receiving, from a network node, an idle mode measurement configuration comprising a measurement duration time value and a validity time value for idle mode measurements. The method further comprises, while in a dormant state, performing one or more idle mode measurements according to the idle mode measurement configuration. The method further comprises determining that one or more idle mode measurement reports are invalid based on the validity time value and deleting the one or more idle mode measurement reports after determining that the one or more idle mode measurement reports are invalid based on the validity time value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oumer Teyeb, Patrik Rugeland
  • Patent number: 11985530
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing body proximity sensing operations based on uplink or measurement gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11985528
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: a communication node acquiring a layer 2 measurement value, and sending the layer 2 measurement value to a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a DU acquiring a DU-side layer 2 measurement value, and sending the DU-side layer 2 measurement value to a CU or a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a CU acquiring a DU-side layer 2 measurement value transmitted by a DU, and sending the DU-side layer 2 measurement value and a CU-side layer 2 measurement value to a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a CU-UP acquiring a CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value, and sending the CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value to a CU-CP or a TCE. Another data transmission method includes: a CU-CP acquiring a CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value transmitted by a CU-UP, and transmitting the CU-UP-side layer 2 measurement value to a TCE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiren Han, Zhuang Liu, Yin Gao
  • Patent number: 11979529
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: circuitry that detects information relating to a user of the information processing apparatus, determines whether the user is a visually impaired person based on the information relating to the user, and based on a determination indicating that the user is the visually impaired person, enable a voice reading operation function for the visually impaired person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuya Monden
  • Patent number: 11978874
    Abstract: An electronic device low-temperature protection method includes: obtaining, by an electronic device, an environmental temperature and a temperature of a battery of the electronic device; determining, by the electronic device based on the environmental temperature and the temperature of the battery, that the electronic device is in a low-temperature environment; and implementing, by the electronic device, low-temperature protection in response to the determined being in the low-temperature environment. According to the electronic device low-temperature protection method provided in this application, both the environmental temperature and the temperature of the battery are considered, and whether the electronic device is in a low-temperature state is detected based on the environmental temperature and the temperature of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bowen Chen, Siyang Li, Zhe Xing, Jie Yang
  • Patent number: 11974201
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a vehicle-road collaboration apparatus and method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The vehicle-road collaboration apparatus includes a service system, which includes a plurality of microservice modules, and each microservice module is configured to process vehicle-road collaboration data to implement a corresponding service function. Thus, scalability and compatibility of a vehicle-road collaboration system are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Yunfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11973894
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, a context affordance associated with a contextual category is displayed. In response to detecting an input, a plurality of options associated with the contextual category are displayed, including a first option corresponding to a first status that is a current status for the contextual category and a second option corresponding to a second status that is not the current status for the contextual category. When an input is detected that corresponds to the second option of the first plurality of options, the current status for the contextual category is set to the second status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Golnaz Abdollahian, Krishna Dayanidhi, Patrick T. Dillon, Aaron R. Zinman
  • Patent number: 11973904
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a data writing unit, a channel number converting unit, and a plurality of serial data transferring unit. The data writing unit is configured to write data of m channels into a memory. The channel number converting unit is configured to output the data read from the memory as data of n channels, where m is larger than n. The plurality of serial data transferring unit is configured to transfer the data of the n channels to a processing device in a subsequent stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Sakaguchi, Tohru Kanno, Masamoto Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11968556
    Abstract: A network quality measurement method and system are provided. In the method, a movement path and a movement speed of a vehicle device are determined according to a size of a space and an endurance time of the vehicle device, and the vehicle device is controlled to move on the movement path at the movement speed. During a movement of the vehicle device, a network quality in the space is measured according to a measurement frequency to generate network quality data. Whether the network quality in the space is changed is determined according to the network quality data. Whether there is an obstacle around the vehicle device is detected. When it is determined that the network quality in the space is changed or the obstacle is detected around the vehicle device, at least one of the movement path, the movement speed, and the measurement frequency is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hui-Ping Kuo, Sheng-Chieh Huang, Hsin-Hui Hwang, Yi-Ming Wu, Man Ju Chien
  • Patent number: 11968595
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11960018
    Abstract: System and device configurations, and processes are provided for determining position based on low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals. Frameworks described herein can include performing Doppler frequency measurement for received quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signals. The framework may include channel tracking operations to determine Doppler shift measurements, a navigation filter operation to determine clock drift based on each Doppler shift measurement from each channel tracking loop, and determining position of a device based on LEO satellite signal sources. Frameworks described herein are also provided for carrier phase differential (CD)—low Earth orbit (LEO) (CD-LEO) measurements that may utilize a base and a rover without requiring prior knowledge of rover position. Embodiments can also cancel effects of ionospheric and tropospheric delays on the carrier phase and CD-LEO measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Zak Kassas, Joe Khalife, Ali Abdallah
  • Patent number: 11963020
    Abstract: Embodiments herein disclose methods for handling a data driven model in a wireless communication network. The method includes identifying, by a first electronic device, a common data driven model capability between a capability information of one or more first data driven model and a capability information of one or more second data driven model. The one or more first data driven model is associated with the first electronic device and the one or more second data driven model is associated with the second electronic device. Further, the method includes performing, by the first electronic device, one of: storing the common data driven model capability in the first electronic device on identifying the common data driven model capability, and disabling a data driven model capability in the first electronic device on not identifying the common data driven model capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ravi Surana, Naveen Kolati, Hoonjae Lee, Bhavin Shah, Yongtae Kim
  • Patent number: 11962728
    Abstract: A reading device includes a body having a base on which a read target object is placed, a reader that reads the read target object placed on the base, a first attachment frame to which the reader is attached such that the reader is disposed above the base, an operation unit that is used for operating the device by touching, a second attachment frame to which the operation unit is attached such that the operation unit is disposed above the base and below the reader, and a body frame to which at least the first attachment frame is attached. The first attachment frame includes multiple frame portions extending upward at positions located away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kei Otagiri
  • Patent number: 11956752
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining signal information based on wireless signals communicated between an electronic device and a target device. The method also includes obtaining motion information based on movement of the electronic device. The method further includes identifying first location information based on the signal information, the first location information indicating whether the target device is within a field of view (FoV) of the electronic device. Additionally, the method includes identifying second location information based on the motion information and the signal information, the second location information indicating whether the target device is within the FoV of the electronic device. The method also includes determining that the target device is within the FoV or outside the FoV of the electronic device based on at least one of the first location information or the second location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoang Viet Nguyen, Yuming Zhu, Neha Dawar, Boon Loong Ng, Yi Yang, Moonseok Kang, Aditya Vinod Padaki, Songwei Li, Moongee Cho, Hyunchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11949821
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method programmed for execution in a computing environment for ordering and facilitating payment of a print product. The method comprises storing a digital image in a memory of the computing system; allowing for the selection of a print product using a user interface accessed by a user computing device to establish a print order, wherein the print product includes the digital image, and wherein the print order includes an identification of the selected print product and an order cost; generating a unique payment link by the processor that corresponds to the print order and provides a user computing device with access to communicate payment information to a remote payment processing system; providing access to the unique payment link to the user computing device; receiving a payment notification at the processor from the remote payment processing system; and allowing for fulfillment of the print order using a printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM North America Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan P. Curry, Ryan Moore
  • Patent number: 11949835
    Abstract: A second management server includes: a reception unit configured to receive a request of notification information, which includes identification information identifying the communication apparatus, from the first management server; a generation unit configured to generate a URL for service registration, which includes the identification information, in a case where the request is received; a transmission unit configured to transmit reply information, which includes the generated URL, to the first management server as a response to the request; and a second transmission unit configured to transmit a request of registration with the service, which is based on the identification information, to the service provider server in response to an access to the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11941306
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain read image data generated by reading an image printed on a sheet by a printing apparatus; and a controller configured to determine an abnormality of the printing apparatus by determining, based on the read image data obtained by the obtaining unit, a type of a stain that appears in the read image data from among a plurality of stain types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takaaki Miyata
  • Patent number: 11943410
    Abstract: Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Taniyama, Rei Tsutsui, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Yuji Takase
  • Patent number: 11929768
    Abstract: In embodiments, an electronic device may include a housing having an inner space, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the inner space of the housing, a first antenna structure disposed at a position spaced apart from the PCB, and transmitting and/or receiving a radio signal in a first frequency band, at least one second antenna structure disposed at a position spaced apart from the PCB, and transmitting and/or receiving a radio signal in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, and a flexible substrate electrically connecting the PCB and the first antenna structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoondo Lee, Sigwan Kim, Hyelee Song, Dongryul Shin, Dongmin Shin, Yoonjae Lee, Handug Lee, Woosik Cho, Weonjai Choi, Taewook Ham, Kyunggu Kim, Hongpyo Bae, Jinwoo Jung, Youngjun Cho
  • Patent number: 11930137
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an imaging device to image a medium, a communication device provided so as to communicate with a plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a processor to acquire a use state of the image reading apparatus, set an information processing apparatus capable of executing imaging control of the imaging device, and control the imaging device according to an instruction signal from the set information processing apparatus. The processor determines whether to set a second information processing apparatus as the information processing apparatus capable of executing the imaging control, based on the use state, when receiving a request signal of the imaging control from the second information processing apparatus in a state where a first information processing apparatus is set as the information processing apparatus capable of executing the imaging control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Koji Hirohashi