Patents Examined by Ping Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9813846
    Abstract: This short-distance radio communication system for a vehicle includes an in-vehicle unit having more than one antenna and a portable unit performing radio communications with the in-vehicle unit. The in-vehicle unit transmits a first burst together with a call signal for calling the portable unit through a first antenna, and transmits a second burst subsequent to the first burst through a second antenna. The portable unit receives the signals transmitted from the in-vehicle unit, measures respective received signal strength indicators from the first burst and the second burst contained in the received signals, and responds to the in-vehicle unit according to results of comparing the respective indicators with given thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Takigawa, Naoki Hayashi, Jun Fujiyama, Toru Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9806754
    Abstract: Cases, devices, and methods for protecting and holding portable handheld devices, such as cell phones and smart phones, in separate protective cases having outwardly extending resilient bumper corner eye lit rings which cushion the case and function as bumpers when the portable electronics device are dropped. The outwardly extending bumpers/eye lit rings can also support lanyards and keychain rings, and the like, so that the cases with portable electronics devices can be easily and safely held in one's finger, about their wrist, or on their neck. A central ring can be formed from an upper middle portion of the case for allowing the forefinger of a user to be inserted therein with the back of the hand supporting the case, and the lanyard wrapped about the user's wrist. The novel cases can also be used to safely protect other types of portable electronic devices, such as tablets and laptop computers, and the like, in similar manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Inventor: Todd Hodge
  • Patent number: 9807806
    Abstract: A method for accessing a network in an electronic system and associated portable device are provided. The portable device includes; a transceiver, supporting a plurality of predetermined communication protocols; and a processor, configured to connect the portable device to a connectivity service device in an electronic system via the transceiver when the portable device enters a coverage region of the connectivity service device. The connectivity service device retrieves service information from a plurality of electronic devices that are connected to the connectivity service device, to build a service list. The processor retrieves the service list from the connectivity service device, and determines a service from the service list to be used for communicating with the plurality of the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Po-Yu Chen, Chih-Hsiang Hsiao, Hua Wu, Chi-Hsuan Lin
  • Patent number: 9800353
    Abstract: A method for controlling an aggregated interference generated by at least two white space units in at least one point in space for at least one frequency channel is provided. A model of propagation channels from each of the white space units to each of the at least one point includes a variable with a lognormal distribution. The method comprises receiving requests for usage of white space frequency channels from the white space units. The requests include positions of the white space units. Output power limits are determined for the white space units by maximizing a utility function while fulfilling a probabilistic constraint on the amount of aggregated interference generated in each of the at least one point. A sum of lognormal variables in the probabilistic constraint is approximated by a single lognormal variable. The determined output power limits are then transmitted to the respective white space units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yngve Selén, Jonas Kronander
  • Patent number: 9801004
    Abstract: A device, method, and system for securely pairing mobile communication devices using device movement includes capturing a begin movement, capturing arbitrary pairing movement, and capturing an end movement. The mobile communication devices verify that they are within a secure range during the pairing process. The captured pairing movement may be normalized, depending on the relative orientation of the mobile communication devices. The captured pairing movement data of each mobile communication device is compared. If the captured pairing movement data matches, then the mobile communication devices are successfully paired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Zhanglin Liu, Peng Guo, Gansha Wu
  • Patent number: 9800704
    Abstract: A Bluetooth-related call control method for mobile phones and a mobile terminal relate to the technical field of mobile communication terminals and Bluetooth. The terminal disclosed in the present document includes: a Bluetooth connection detection module, configured to detect a Bluetooth connection state between a headset and the terminal, and when the Bluetooth connection state between the headset and the terminal is a disconnected state and in a current call state a call is present, transmit a prompt tone play command to a play module; and the play module, configured to read and play externally a first preset audio file according to the prompt tone play command transmitted by the Bluetooth connection detection module, herein the first preset audio file stores a prompt tone indicating that the Bluetooth headset has been disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Deliang Dong
  • Patent number: 9793981
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are provided, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. Provided is a method of controlling an operation of a specific mobile terminal by forming a wireless communication group through a short range communication and then synthesizing analyses of motion patterns detected through mobile terminals belonging to the wireless communication group. Accordingly, in performing a function through a motion of each of a plurality of mobile terminals belonging to a single wireless communication group, a function is more accurately activated and accessibility to the function activation is improved, thereby enhancing user's convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungseok Lee, Jungwhan Kim, Seonghyok Kim, Jiyong Yoo, Gukchan Lim, Sunsang So
  • Patent number: 9788141
    Abstract: Methods and systems include moving a mobile communication unit along a plurality of module units, and exchanging data with one of the plurality of module units based at least upon the mobile communication unit being in proximity to the one of the plurality of module units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SunPower Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ponec, Darren Hau, Benjamin A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9786999
    Abstract: A testing system optimizes a cost function of a theoretical spatial cross correlation and a spatial correlation obtained with antenna elements for determining weights of the antenna elements, and forms a beam of a signal of at least one path of a simulated radio channel with at least two antenna elements of a plurality of antenna elements coupled to an emulator in an anechoic chamber. The at least two antenna elements are capable of polarizing the beam in a known manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies Singapore (Holdings) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pekka Kyosti, Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen
  • Patent number: 9787415
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating and compensating TX LO leakage using circuitry on a loopback path connecting the transmitter and receiver are provided. The TX LO leakage may be estimated by measuring the DC signal on the receiver, measuring the phase difference between the received LO signal and the receiver LO signal, and filtering LO harmonics that may arise from the use of non-linear mixers. The DC signal on the receiver may be measured by opening and closing the loopback path, or changing the gain of the loopback path, or flipping the phase of looped back TX signal. The method may be used in an initialization or tracking calibration scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jianxun Fan, Reza Alavi, Steven R. Bal, David J. McLaurin
  • Patent number: 9780813
    Abstract: A system and method for improving radio performance through automatic channel selection utilizing a closed-channel model is disclosed. A measurement engine records maximum user throughput on a per station basis during normal traffic operation. The measurement engine further records throughput metrics based on test traffic sent to all associated stations during idle operation. A policy logic engine utilizes the measurements to determine an optimal transmission channel for transmission and receipt of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: RUCKUS WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: William S. Kish
  • Patent number: 9781252
    Abstract: The invention provides an information processing method, system and a mobile terminal, which can detect a motion trajectory of the mobile terminal after the mobile terminal receives a call request, and execute a first process when the motion trajectory meets a preset condition. It can be seen that, in the invention, whether a user will answer the call request is determined by the judgment to the motion trajectory of the mobile terminal after the call request is received. After it is determined that the user will answer the call request, the processes, such as automatically answering the call request, closing a screen touching function of a touch screen, or adjusting screen brightness, can be executed, so that the user does not need to perform any manual operation, which on one hand, improves execution efficiency, and on the other hand, avoids a misoperation caused by a manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lifeng Fan
  • Patent number: 9780862
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a feed end, a ground end, a main radiator, a coupling portion, a matching circuit, a switching circuit, and a diplexer. The main radiator is coupled to the feed end. The coupling portion is coupled to the ground end and is spaced apart from the main radiator to allow current to flow from the main radiator to the coupling portion. The switching circuit is coupled to the ground end. The diplexer includes a first port, a second port, and a third port, the first port is coupled to the feed end, the second port is coupled to a transceiver via the matching circuit, and the third port is coupled to the transceiver. The diplexer separates high frequency current from low frequency current output from the feed end, the matching circuit and the switching circuit adjust the high frequency current and the low frequency current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Geng-Hong Liou, Yen-Hui Lin
  • Patent number: 9775056
    Abstract: A method and device for performing interference control are provided. The method includes: network side device determines traffic load parameter value of each cell and the measurement parameter between the base stations which random two cells belongs to; For the two cells, the network side device determines an interference control threshold according to the traffic load parameter value of the two cells, and compares the determined the measurement parameter with the interference control threshold, and performs cluster partition according to the comparing result. The network side device performs interference control according to the partitioned cluster. Because the factor of cell traffic load is considered in performing TDD cross link interference control, thus the cross link interference in TDD networking is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Zukang Shen, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 9768826
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a self-interference cancellation method, a transceiver, and a communications device for a transmit/receive shared antenna. The method includes: in a self-interference channel measurement timeslot, transmitting a first reference signal on a transmit channel, and receiving a second reference signal on a reference signal receive channel, where the second reference signal is a reference signal obtained after the first reference signal passes through a self-interference signal transmission path; and performing channel estimation according to the first reference signal and the second reference signal to obtain description information of the self-interference transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 9763196
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a mobile hotspot UFI device and a start-up method. The UFI device includes a battery, a main control chip, a power management chip and a start-up control unit. The power management chip internally provides a control signal at a first electric potential, and when the control signal is at a second electric potential, the power management chip controls the battery to supply electricity to hardware of the UFI device. When the main control chip does not output a GPIO signal, the start-up control unit conducts the external power supply to the control signal, so as to make the control signal change from the first electric potential to the second electric potential. When the main control chip outputs the GPIO signal, the start-up control unit disconnects the external power supply from the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiajun Liu, Jihong Wang
  • Patent number: 9755593
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for compensating a power amplification unit of a wireless RF module that includes a baseband unit, a RF transceiver unit, a power amplification unit and a control unit. The baseband unit is connected to the power amplification unit through the control unit and the RF transceiver unit. Based on the characteristic of the power amplification unit, the baseband unit provides a control signal to regulate the output signal characteristic of the power amplification unit, or provides a RF transceiver unit control signal to regulate the characteristics of the RF signal being transmitted by the RF transceiver unit to the power amplification unit, or to regulate the characteristics of the baseband signal being transmitted to the RF transceiver unit, enabling the characteristics of the output signal of the power amplification unit to meet the specifications of the related system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Kuang Lee, Heng-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 9749891
    Abstract: A method includes determining at a User Equipment (UE) that logged Minimization of Drive Tests measurements (MDT) is configured and thus a plurality of MDT measurements are to be made and results of said measurements are to be stored for reporting at a later time. It is determined that said measurements are to be stopped (suspended) for various reasons (such as the UE being in any cell selection mode or camping on any cell) and information indicating a reason why said measurements are to be stopped (suspended) is stored in the measurement log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Malgorzata Tomala, Benoist Pierre Sebire, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 9748989
    Abstract: A beam plan that defines beams generated by a satellite that satisfy a set of communication service requirements is obtained. Fade condition information that indicates an amount of fade at particular geographic areas for one or more of the beams is obtained. A modification to the beam plan that mitigates the amount of fade at the particular geographic areas for the one or more of the beams is determined. The beam plan is modified based on the determined modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: RKF Engineering Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Freedman, Erik Halvorson, Michael Mandell, Ted Kaplan, Arnold Berman, Brian Sipos, Scott Conrad Markley, David Marshack
  • Patent number: 9742997
    Abstract: Systems and methods for device handshaking are described. Embodiments for client device and associated wearable device initiated handshaking are described. In certain embodiments, a device such as wearable camera eyeglasses having both high-speed wireless circuitry and low-power wireless circuitry communicates with a client device. The low-power wireless circuitry is used for signaling and to manage power on handshaking for the high-speed circuitry in order to reduce power consumption. An analysis of a high-speed connection status may be performed by a client device, and used to conserve power at the glasses with signaling from the client device to indicate when the high-speed circuitry of the glasses should be powered on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Inventors: Alex Bamberger, Peter Brook, Nicolas Dahlquist, Matthew Hanover, Russell Douglas Patton, Jonathan M Rodriguez, II