Patents Examined by Nguyen Vo
  • Patent number: 10149136
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a triggering event to initiate a communication session with a second computing device associated with a second user, where the first computing device includes one or more wireless transceivers and one or more sensors, determining an initial trust score for the second computing device, sensing physical interactions between users using the one or more sensors, adjusting the trust score for the second computing device based at least on the sensed physical interactions, and sending a message to the second computing device if the adjusted trust score for the second computing device satisfies a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Sri Sathya, Ramesh Raskar
  • Patent number: 10142928
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for reducing power consumption, and a mobile terminal, which are used to reduce power consumption of the mobile terminal, and improve user experience. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: when a system enters a preset working mode, detecting a first-type application and a second-type application that are installed in the system; changing a type of an alarm of the first-type application, and suspending an alarm of the second-type application, so that the alarm of the first-type application cannot wake up the system in the preset working mode, and that the alarm of the second-type application cannot wake up the system in the preset working mode and/or is not woken up by the system when the system is in an awake state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Yu Peng, Yuhua Guo
  • Patent number: 10135472
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for compensating radio frequency (RF) transmitters for local oscillator (LO) leakage are provided herein. In certain configurations herein, a transmitter generates an RF transmit signal based on mixing an input signal with an LO signal. Additionally, the transmitter is calibrated to compensate for LO leakage, which provides a number of benefits, including lower levels of undesired emissions from the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Analog Devices Global
    Inventor: Ahmed Mohammad Ashry Othman
  • Patent number: 10136399
    Abstract: A capacitive proximity detector for use in a connected portable device such as a telephone, laptop or tablet, in which the capacity seen by the sensor electrode is compared with four thresholds: a proximity threshold, set lower than the other, to generate a general proximity flag, and a body detection threshold set higher than the other arranged to generate a body detection flag that indicates that the object in proximity is a part of a human body. Two object detection thresholds in the region between the proximity threshold and the body threshold define a region in which the detector can decide whether the object in proximity is an inanimate object, based on the time variation of the capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Semtech Corporation
    Inventor: Chaouki Rouaissia
  • Patent number: 10128875
    Abstract: A digital transmitter includes baseband interfaces to generate digital baseband signals with baseband frequencies, digital-upconverting stages to upconvert the baseband frequencies to first radio frequencies having a predetermined frequency range, a M-Band ??M modulator to modulate the up-stage signals based on noise shaping and noise quantization processes, delay registers to align phases of the modulated up-stage signals, a noise canceler to generate noise canceling signals with a converted polarity, a Switch Mode Power Amplifier to amplify the phase aligned modulated up-stage signals up to a predetermined power level, a linear power amplifier to amplify the noise canceling signals up to the predetermined power level, a power combiner to combine to generate transmitting signals by combining the amplified phase aligned modulated up-stage signals and the amplified noise canceling signals, and an antenna to transmit the transmitting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Ma, Daniel Antonio Da Costa Dinis
  • Patent number: 10128883
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus for a mobile terminal is provided. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna pattern, a first electric circuit and a second electric circuit respectively connected between both ends of the antenna pattern and a system ground, and a third electric circuit disposed between the antenna pattern and a feeding line, wherein the first electric circuit and the second electric circuit extend electrical wavelengths of the antenna pattern and the third electric circuit increases input impedance matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungsik Park, Sooung Chun
  • Patent number: 10123153
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for portable storage devices are disclosed. A portable storage device may communicate with other devices utilizing a standardized communication system (“SCS”) to transmit data directly between devices including an SCS. The SCS may discover available devices. The portable storage device may be a wearable device. A user may be able to keep the portable storage device with them and access files on the portable storage device wirelessly using any other device utilizing an SCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Fasetto, Inc.
    Inventors: Coy Christmas, Luke Malpass
  • Patent number: 10117207
    Abstract: Over-the-air (OTA) phase synchronization for reciprocity-based coordinated multipoint (CoMP) joint transmission is disclosed. Phase synchronization reference signals (PSRS) are transmitted within a CoMP operation that can be used to determine the phase drifts of the transmit and receive chains of the base stations. These phase drifts can then be used to obtain a relative phase drift between the uplink and downlink channels. When estimating the uplink channel from the sounding reference signals (SRS), the relative phase drift may be applied to estimate the downlink channel as well. The OTA phase synchronization may be performed with a user equipment (UE)-assisted or inter-base station procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhifei Fan, Taesang Yoo, Dinkar Vasudevan
  • Patent number: 10117118
    Abstract: RF signal amplifiers are provided that include an RF input port, a switching device having an input that is coupled to the RF input port, a first output and a second output, a first diplexer having an input that is coupled to both the first output of the switching device and the second output of the switching device, and a first RF output port that is coupled to an output of the first diplexer. These amplifiers further include an attenuator that is coupled between the second output of the switching device and the input of the first diplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Robert R. Riggsby, Shi Man Li, Ming Yao Lee
  • Patent number: 10117183
    Abstract: A data transmission method and a device are disclosed and relate to the field of communications technologies, so that the technical solutions can reduce power consumption of the second device during the channel detection. The method includes: determining, by a first device, a candidate-moment set; determining, by the first device, a target candidate moment from the candidate-moment set; and sending, by the first device, data on a channel according to the target candidate moment. The method and the device are used for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 10110370
    Abstract: Systems and methods providing wireless synchronization of wave arrays may include an antenna that receives a wireless injection signal and another antenna that radiates a locked wave signal corresponding to the injection signal. In some embodiments, these systems may also provide a low noise amplifier, voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), buffer amplifier(s), phase shifter, and/or multi-stage amplifier. In some embodiments, the injection signal may be provided on an even harmonic, and the intended transmission frequency signal is on an odd harmonic of the locked signal. The substrate thickness may be designed to radiate electromagnetic waves in odd harmonics of the locked signal. In yet another embodiment, polarization of a receiving antenna may be orthogonal to a transmitter antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Charles Chen, Aydin Babakhani
  • Patent number: 10110281
    Abstract: A near field communication (NFC) device capable of operating by being powered by the field includes an NFC module for generating an electromagnetic carrier signal and modulating the carrier signal according to data to be transmitted, and an antenna circuit coupled to and driven by said NFC module with the modulated carrier signal. An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filter of the NFC device is coupled to the NFC module via output terminals of said NFC module. A powered by the field circuit of the NFC device is adapted to harvest energy from an external field to power said NFC device. The power by the field circuit is coupled to said EMC filter via one or more impedance elements. The NFC device is adapted to be able to operate in one of a reader mode, a battery supplied card mode, and a powered by the field card mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Jingfeng Ding, Ghiath Al-kadi, Erich Merlin
  • Patent number: 10110271
    Abstract: Described herein are circuits and methods for improving switch performance when overdriving the gate by adding a delay on a PMOS gate voltage such that it can turn on the PMOS during switch state transition to allow charge/discharge of the switch body voltage faster and it can turn off once the process is complete. For example, back-to-back diodes can be used to separate the PMOS gate and drain. This can reduce leakage current and can reduce or eliminate the potential for breakdown of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yuan Li, Edward F. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 10097220
    Abstract: Examples provide a device, an apparatus, a method, a computer program, a receiver, a mobile terminal and a base station. An interference detection device (10) is configured to generate an auxiliary interference signal for a multi-carrier receive signal. The device (10) comprises a generator (12) configured to generate a plurality of oscillator signals. The plurality of oscillator signals comprises at least a first oscillator signal with a first local oscillator frequency. The plurality of oscillator signals further comprises a second oscillator signal with a second local oscillator frequency. The device (10) further comprises a plurality of subsequent mixers. A first mixer (14) is configured to mix the multi-carrier receive signal with the first oscillator signal to output a first mixed signal. A second mixer (16) is configured to mix a second mixed signal with the second oscillator signal to output the auxiliary interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Krzysztof Dufrene, Silvester Sadjina, Andreas Gebhard, Ram S. Kanumalli
  • Patent number: 10097216
    Abstract: A radio frequency front end circuit includes an output signal transmission line, an amplifier circuit with an input connected to a radio frequency signal source and an output connected to the output signal transmission line. A harmonic suppression circuit is connected to the amplifier circuit, and includes an active circuit element having a frequency-dependent impedance and is tuned as a reflective trap with a negative capacitance for one or more rejection frequency ranges each corresponding to a multiple of a fundamental frequency of a signal generated by the radio frequency signal source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Skyworks Soultions, Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksandr Gorbachov, Lisette L. Zhang, Lothar Musiol
  • Patent number: 10090985
    Abstract: A method and user equipment for transmitting an uplink signal according to a spectrum emission mask (SEM) are discussed. The method performed by the user equipment includes if a radio frequency (RF) unit of the user equipment is configured to use inter-band carrier aggregation (CA), transmitting uplink signals on the carriers, wherein if a first SEM of a first carrier is overlapped in some frequency region with a second SEM of a second carrier, one SEM allowing a higher power spectral density (PSD) is selected to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suhwan Lim, Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Manyoung Jung, Jinyup Hwang
  • Patent number: 10090955
    Abstract: A boundary of a wireless network is monitored for incoming wireless signals that may interfere with an ability of a first wireless computing device to connect to the wireless network within the boundary of the wireless network. For an incoming wireless signal determined to interfere with the ability of the first wireless computing device to connect to the wireless network within the boundary of the wireless network, a directional opposing outgoing wireless signal is emitted to counteract the incoming wireless signal and to stop the incoming wireless signal from further interfering with the ability of the first wireless computing device to connect to the wireless network within the boundary of the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ira L. Allen, Lambert S. Berentsen, Gregory J. Boss
  • Patent number: 10090909
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to facilitate maintaining of antenna connectivity based on communicated geographic information are disclosed. An example method may include receiving, by a device, position information from a base station. The position information may include an altitude associated with the base station. The method may further include determining a positional difference between the device and the base station based at least on the position information. The method may further include configuring an antenna of the device based at least on the positional difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Haywood S. Peitzer, Damir Mustafic, James A. Wolters, II, Matthew Walsh, Thomas Becker
  • Patent number: 10090868
    Abstract: A transmission module includes an amplifier that amplifies a plurality of transmission signals in different frequency bands, a power supply voltage regulator circuit that supplies different power supply voltages for the respective frequency bands of the transmission signals to the amplifier, and a variable matching circuit including at least one variable capacitor element and at least one fixed inductor element. The variable matching circuit satisfies different output impedance matching conditions of the amplifier for the respective frequency bands of the transmission signals by changing a capacitance value of the at least one variable capacitor element on the basis of a change in the output impedance matching conditions of the amplifier in response to a change in the power supply voltages supplied to the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Kondo
  • Patent number: 10079583
    Abstract: A circuit includes a first device between a first input node and an internal node, a second device between a second input node and the internal node, a third device between the internal node and ground, a fourth device between the internal node and an output node, and a fifth device between the output node and ground. The second and third devices generate a direct current (DC) voltage on the internal node by dividing a bias voltage on the second input node. The fourth device generates, from the DC voltage, a first component of an output voltage on the output node. The first and third devices generate a modulation signal on the internal node by dividing a radio frequency (RF) signal on the first input node. The fifth device rectifies the modulation signal to generate a second output voltage component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Lin Chu, Hsieh-Hung Hsieh, Tzu-Jin Yeh