Patents Examined by Sam K. Ahn
  • Patent number: 9629546
    Abstract: In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Arc Devices, LTD
    Inventors: Irwin Gross, Michael G. Smith, Mark Khachaturian, Martin Crawley, Steven Gerst, John Barrett, Michael Cronin, Derek Turnbull, Jason Bodnick
  • Patent number: 9622212
    Abstract: A paging method includes, when needing to page a user equipment (UE) according to service requirements, a mobile switching center (MSC) analyzing a user identification if finding that subscriber data are lost at present, judging whether the UE has a possibility of residing in a long term evolution (LTE) network, if yes, finding out one or more mobility management entities (MMEs) which are overlapped with the coverage area of the MSC itself, and sending a paging message for the UE to the MMEs. An MSC includes a first module, a second module, a third module and a fourth module. With the paging method and apparatus provided, the UE in the LTE can be successfully paged under the condition that a visitor location register (VLR) loses the subscriber data and a home location register (HLR) fails to return an MME identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Jingxiang Liu, Jinguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 9600699
    Abstract: An inventory system can include radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and RFID tuners that can be brought into interacting proximity with one another to provide input or other information about the location or other condition of movable elements within the inventory system. A wearable accessory that is wearable by a human operator can include RFID tuners thereon for interacting with RFID tags on other elements of the inventory system in order to communicate details about the elements and facilitate functions of the inventory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Russell, Wesley Scott Lauka
  • Patent number: 9602316
    Abstract: Multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detectors in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In a number of embodiments, the multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector uses soft metrics based on the Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) of each symbol to provide information concerning the reliability of each detected symbol. One embodiment of the invention includes a receiver configured to receive and sample a phase modulated input signal, and a multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector configured to receive the sampled input signal and to generate a soft metric indicative of the reliability of a detected symbol based upon observations over multiple symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mojix, Inc.
    Inventors: Dariush Divsalar, Ramin Sadr
  • Patent number: 9591968
    Abstract: In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ARC DEVICES, LTD
    Inventors: Irwin Gross, Michael G. Smith, Mark Khachaturian, Martin Crawley, Steven Gerst, John Barrett, Michael Cronin, Derek Turnbull, Jason Bodnick
  • Patent number: 9596644
    Abstract: A macro eNB (MeNB) triggers a small cell (eLA eNB) to transmit a sequence on a second frequency band using a triggering command that indicates a time to transmit the sequence. On a first frequency band the MeNB triggers at least one user equipment UE to detect the sequence on the second band, and this trigger also has a first indication of when the sequence will be transmitted. From a second indication the MeNB receives on the first band from the at least one UE in response to the triggering of the UE the MeNB can determine whether the UE is located proximate to the small cell. The indication may be as little as a single bit indicating whether the UE detected or not the sequence. The first and second bands may be on first and second component carriers that may not be synchronized to one another, and the aperiodic nature of the triggered sequences and detection reports saves UE power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yuantao Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Jianchi Zhu, Haipeng Lei, Kodo Shu
  • Patent number: 9590698
    Abstract: Various aspects of the instant disclosure are directed towards a method for communicating time-based data in a power line communication system. In accordance with one or more example embodiments, firmware is downloaded to a multitude of endpoints over power distribution lines carrying alternating current (AC) power. Endpoint devices targeted for changes to stored firmware are grouped and the firmware is delivered in chunks to each group. As devices receive a particular chunk of firmware, the device advances to a next stage and provides information indicative of this stage, based upon which subsequent chunks of firmware are communicated. This occurs (e.g., on a daily cycle) until the endpoint has received all firmware for an update, after which the endpoint(s) are re-started using the firmware. Accordingly, such updates can be carried out in a cyclic and verifiable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John F. Duff, Rolf Flen, Scott H. Christiansen, Roland Johnson
  • Patent number: 9585019
    Abstract: A device management apparatus that mediates between an owner of a device and a user who is not the owner of the device in order to permit the user to use the device, includes a device information storage section in which information on each of a plurality of devices is registered, an acquisition section which acquires a desired condition from a user, and a matching process section which performs matching between the desired condition acquired from the user and the information on each device registered in the device information storage section thereby selecting a device satisfying the desired condition as a target device, generating contract information related to the use of the target device between an owner of the target device and the user, and granting a control right of the target device to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9571308
    Abstract: Systems and methods for high speed communications are described herein. In certain aspects, the systems and methods include innovative transceiver architectures and techniques for re-timing, multiplexing, de-multiplexing and transmitting data. The systems and methods can be used to achieve reliable high-speed point-to-point communication between different electronic devices, computing devices, storage devices and peripheral devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ClariPhy Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Louis Lugthart, Jeffrey Zachan, Linghsiao Jerry Wang, Paul Voois, Neel H. Patel, Norman L. Swenson, Scott Powell
  • Patent number: 9515711
    Abstract: Provided is a method for receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), information on vertical angle restriction to be used for a precoding matrix which the UE desires to an eNodeB (eNB); and receiving, by the UE, a downlink signal precoded according to the information on vertical angle restriction, wherein the information on vertical angle restriction includes values indicating a lower limit angle and an upper limit angle for the precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kunil Yum, Youngtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 9508271
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a tamper-proof electronic bolt seal which contains a bolt assembly and a seal body. The gist of the present invention lies in the bolt assembly which contains a casing, and a circuit board elastically suspended inside the casing. When a burglar grinds a bolt head of the casing, an internal circuit of the electronic bolt seal is automatically disrupted so that the tampering of the electronic bolt seal can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Inventor: Chih-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 9510173
    Abstract: Systems and methods for filtering emergency broadcast messages. One embodiment is User Equipment (UE) that store rules for filtering emergency broadcast messages. The UE receives an emergency broadcast message over a paging channel of a mobile network, identifies a class indicator assigned to the emergency broadcast message, selects one of the rules based on the class indicator assigned to the emergency broadcast message, and determines whether the emergency broadcast message is authorized for presentation on the UE based on the rule. The UE then ignores the emergency broadcast message responsive to a determination that the emergency broadcast message is not authorized for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Anil Rao
  • Patent number: 9503167
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, formatting input streams into Data Pipe, DP, data; Low-Density Parity-Check, LDPC, encoding the DP data according to a code rate; bit interleaving the LDPC encoded DP data; mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations according to one of QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), NUQ (Non-Uniform QAM) or NUC (Non-Uniform Constellation); Multi-Input Multi-Output, MIMO, encoding the mapped DP data by using a MIMO encoding matrix having a MIMO encoding parameter; building at least one signal frame by mapping the MIMO encoded DP data; and modulating data in the built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyong Choi, Byounggill Kim, Woochan Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong, Chulkyu Mun, Jaeho Hwang, Jongseob Baek, Kookyeon Kwak, Sangchul Moon
  • Patent number: 9490852
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a circuit package includes a programmable switch component having a plurality of input terminals arranged on the programmable switch component, a plurality of output terminals arranged on the programmable switch component and configured to be coupled to a plurality of amplifiers, and a plurality of switches. Each switch of the plurality of switches is coupled between an input terminal of the plurality of input terminals and an output terminal of the plurality of output terminals. Each switch of the plurality of switches includes a radio frequency (RF) switch and is configured to pass an RF signal when closed. Each input terminal of the plurality of input terminals is coupled to two switches of the plurality of switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Daniel Kehrer
  • Patent number: 9491011
    Abstract: A signaling system supports main and auxiliary communication channels between integrated circuits in the same direction over a single link. An equalizing transmitter applies appropriate filter coefficients to minimize the impact of intersymbol interference when transmitting the main data over a communication channel. The transmitter modulates at least one of the filter coefficients with the auxiliary data to induce apparent ISI in the transmitted signal. A main receiver ignores the apparent ISI to recover the main data, while an auxiliary receiver detects and demodulates the apparent ISI to recover the auxiliary data. The auxiliary data may be encoded using spread-spectrum techniques to reduce the impact of the auxiliary data on the main data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Jaeha Kim, Haechang Lee, Jung-Hoon Chun, Jared Zerbe
  • Patent number: 9485119
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an offset correction technique for a SERDES system. A CTLE module for receiving input data signal is set to an isolation mode, and one or more sense amplifiers perform data sampling asynchronously during the isolation mode. During the isolation mode, CLTE(s) that are not directly connected to the sense amplifiers are shut. Data sampled during the isolation mode are used to determine an offset value that is later used in normal operation of the SERDES system. There are other embodiments as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Parmanand Mishra, Simon Forey
  • Patent number: 9485620
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for delivering emergent event notifications to a user's Mobile Device. Map and Calendar applications are polled with correlations made between map locations and event information. Geo-Fence Boundaries are established for map locations which are inherited by their associated events. Penetration of a Geo-Fence Boundary by a Mobile Device running the Mobile Application triggers a search for events that are associated with the established Geo-Fence Boundary. Filtered Notifications of event options of interest to the user are transmitted to the Mobile Device based on pre-established and dynamic variables and whether the user can arrive at the event while it is underway. Upon selection of an event by the user, the Mobile Device provides route and navigation guidance to the selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Inventors: Denice M. Henson, Karl Richard Kohlbrand, Scott Robert Simons, Brian Jay Cobb, Brian Reid Henson
  • Patent number: 9482738
    Abstract: A method for determining a topology of a wireless communication network (14), the method comprising: receiving a plurality of signal strength data respectively measured at a plurality of fixed stations (12) in the network each with respect to its neighbouring fixed stations; receiving a sensor data measured at a mobile station 16 operable to communicate with the network; and determining positions of the plurality of fixed stations based on the signal strength data measured at the plurality of fixed stations and the sensor data measured at the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Norwood Systems Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Paul Frederick Norwood Ostergaard, David Alexander Wilson
  • Patent number: 9485126
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a transmission of constant envelope on a carrier signal. All possible combinations of all component codes for phases for producing the transmission are defined. Desired component code powers and desired intercode phases between all pairs of component codes are also defined. Still further, a portion of variables of a search process to reduce a number of variables searched by the search process is defined. Even further, deltas and weight variations for standard differences in a Jacobian matrix for use in the search process are defined. Penalty factors to evaluate an objective function of the search process are also defined. The search process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Isaac M. Jeng
  • Patent number: 9485635
    Abstract: For displaying information associated with correspondence, a memory stores code executable by a processor. The code identifies a communication context for a communication. The communication context includes a correspondent. The code further displays information associated with the communication context. The information includes a prior communication with the correspondent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bowser, John Weldon Nicholson, Rod D. Waltermann