Patents Examined by Shantell L Heiber
  • Patent number: 10645223
    Abstract: A PBX system complements the mobile phones of users. Custom incoming and outgoing call rules are dynamically activated for users when the users begin utilizing a facility having at least one phone number and a number of internal phones. A custom rule causes outgoing calls made from an internal phone used by a user to have a caller ID phone number of the user's personal mobile phone rather than the facility's phone number. Another custom rule causes incoming calls made to the facility's phone number that have a source caller ID phone number matching a phone number in the user's mobile phone address book to be automatically forwarded directly to an internal phone currently utilized by the user. The user may install an application on their mobile phone, and another custom rule causes incoming calls at the user's mobile phone to be twinned while the user is at the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: INNACLOUD TECHNOLOGIES LLC, GUEST TEK INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LTD.
    Inventors: Russell D. McComb, Christopher Abnett, Andrew T. MacMillan
  • Patent number: 10631247
    Abstract: A method and apparatus capable of minimizing power consumption occurring when a mobile device is changed from a sleep state to a wake-up state by partially controlling on/off of a display unit and partial booting control of a system function are provided. The method includes detecting a change of the mobile device from a sleep state to a wake-up state, turning on a display unit of the mobile device such that a first section of the mobile device displays an operating region, the first section including one or more portions of the display unit and less than an entire screen of the display unit and waiting for a system function registered in the operating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong Do Ahn, Sung Min Cho
  • Patent number: 10631219
    Abstract: A communication system onboard an aircraft includes: a first multi-frequency transceiver coupled to a first antenna; a second multi-frequency transceiver coupled to a second antenna; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to a memory, the first multi-frequency transceiver, and the second multi-frequency transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to: establish a first air-to-ground data communication link with the first multi-frequency transceiver and a first ground station using a first frequency; determine that a handoff from the first frequency to a second frequency is needed, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency; and establish a second air-to-ground data communication link with the second multi-frequency transceiver and a second ground station using a second frequency, wherein the first air-to-ground data communication link is maintained until the second air-to-ground data communication link is successfully established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Yilong Zhang, Haiping Chen
  • Patent number: 10623937
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for validating and supplementing emergency call information. A Public Safety Answering Point receives an emergency (e.g., 911) call from a mobile device. Parts of the emergency call are processed to identify an emergency call location. Characteristics of the emergency call are combined with characteristics of other signals to identify and emergency call event, including the emergency call location. The emergency call event is sent to the Public Safety Answering Point. Prior to receiving phase II data and possibly even prior to receiving phase I data, the Public Safety Answering Point receives the event. The Public Safety Answering Point tailors dispatch of emergency resources responding to the emergency call based on characteristics of the event, including the originating location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Banjo, Inc.
    Inventors: Damien Patton, Rish Mehta, Christian Gratton, Varun Gowda, Michael B. Dodd
  • Patent number: 10623969
    Abstract: A measurement method, a sending method, a measurement apparatus, and a sending system for interference coordination are disclosed. The measurement method includes: obtaining measurement configuration information, and obtaining measurement resource information for restrictive measurement; performing measurement according to the measurement configuration information and the measurement resource information for restrictive measurement, and obtaining a measurement result; and reporting the measurement result. Therefore, the interfered UE can perform measurement accurately and report the measurement result as a basis of handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Lin, Li Chai, Jie Shi
  • Patent number: 10608834
    Abstract: A mechanism, with action awareness, incorporating a building automation system (BAS) having an interface screen. A mobile device may be logged by a first user into an app for connecting with the interface screen. A display of the mobile device may show the interface screen that reveals one or more components in a space covered by the BAS. The first user may select a first component of the one or more components in the display and perform a first action on the component. A second user may log into an app with a second or the same mobile device which has a display that reveals the one or more components in the space. The second user may select the first component in the display and see a notification describing one or more actions already performed on the first component before deciding whether to perform an action on it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Shaiju Janardhanan, Hemanth Padikkal Veettil, Nikhil Scaria
  • Patent number: 10594046
    Abstract: A satellite communication system comprises one or more non-geostationary satellites. Each satellite is configured to provide a plurality of spot beams. The polarizations of the spot beams are laid out on each satellite so that terminals have a constant polarization as the field of regard traverses the terminal location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Space Systems/Loral, LLC
    Inventors: William Hreha, Guillaume Lamontagne, Louis Trichardt Hildebrand
  • Patent number: 10595192
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods may involve a provider application configured to access a user account associated with a provider server. For example, a system may perform operations to identify one or more other applications installed on the mobile device that may be configured to communicate with the provider server. The system may determine data required by the other applications to perform one or more data transfers with the user account. The system may cause the provider application to send the data required to the other applications. As such, the other applications may be enabled to perform one or more data transfers with the user account based on the data sent to the other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Ward, Vijeyta Aggarwal, Larry Lingjer Wang, Mayank Chaudhary, Nischitha Thimmappa Gowda Sundaramma
  • Patent number: 10588000
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes a processor, a Bluetooth transceiver accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to, based on at least one signal received at the Bluetooth transceiver, determine a distance from the first device to a second device different from the first device. The instructions are also executable to, based on the distance, execute at least one function at the first device associated with a telephonic communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler, Rod D. Waltermann
  • Patent number: 10582384
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving electromagnetic waves at a physical interface of a transmission medium that propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the electromagnetic waves are guided by the transmission medium, and wherein the electromagnetic waves have a non-optical frequency range. A determination is made as to whether the electromagnetic waves are being received from a second network device according to a comparison of a fingerprint of the electromagnetic waves and an expected fingerprint of expected parameters for the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the second network device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Gross, Joshua Lackey, Donald E. Levy, Roger Piqueras Jover, Jayaraman Ramachandran, Cristina Serban
  • Patent number: 10581984
    Abstract: A network function (NF) profile repository function (NPRF) is provided to receive, for each one of a plurality of NF instances of a plurality of different NF types, information associated with the NF instance and store the information in memory. The NPRF may then also receive, from an NF repository function (NRF), a message which indicates a request for information associated with one or more NF instances of an indicated NF type. In response, the NPRF may retrieve, from the memory based on the indicated NF type, information associated with the one or more NF instances. The NPRF may send, to the NRF, a message which indicates a response to the request, where the response includes retrieved information associated with the one or more NF instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Livanos, Robert Glenn Smith, Ian McDowell Campbell
  • Patent number: 10575155
    Abstract: Method and system for interfacing a plurality of providers and a plurality of recipients that are independently located with a unified vehicle service framework having a quality of service filter and a broker module. A first cloud unit has at least one of the plurality of providers and the plurality of recipients. A first vehicle and a second vehicle each respectively have another at least one of the plurality of providers and the plurality of recipients. A second cloud unit has yet another at least one of the plurality of providers and the plurality of recipients. The unified vehicle service framework is configured to receive a subscription request and determine whether it is granted based in part on a quality of service score assigned by the quality of service filter. When the subscription request is granted, respective services from plurality of providers are routed through the broker module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Fan Bai, Thomas E. Fuhrman, Soheil Samii, Prathap Venugopal, Massimo Osella
  • Patent number: 10575165
    Abstract: It is desirable for a user equipment (UE) 100 to be able to determine if connecting using an access point name (APN) would result in a home routed or local breakout (LBO) routed connection. With this information, the UE can decide which APNs to use for packet data network (PDN) connections e.g. to ensure that the bearers on the PDN connection are able to carry certain services which are incompatible with home routing or LBO routing, or to ensure that charging is carried out by the home or visited network, as desired (e.g. to avoid roaming fees). Alternatively, the user can be presented with the option of home routing or LBO routing for a connection. In order to provide this information to the UE, modified signalling is proposed, among others, by means of a method of operating a mobility management entity (MME) 200 in a mobile telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ralf Keller, Ann-Christine Sander, Ivo Sedlacek
  • Patent number: 10568065
    Abstract: Information such as navigation information is delivered to a mobile device user in a cellular communications network via a device other than the mobile device. A small cell telecommunications base station receives from the mobile device an identification of the mobile device, and determines a location of the user within the small cell. Based on the identification of the mobile device and the location of the user of the mobile device, the information is delivered to the user via a device other than the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Baldwin, Michael Towster
  • Patent number: 10567447
    Abstract: A mobile communication device including a wireless transceiver and a wireless transceiver is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first service network and a second service network. The controller uses a first subscriber identity card to establish one or more first radio bearers with the first service network via the wireless transceiver, uses a second subscriber identity card to set up an Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) tunnel with an evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) of the second service network via the first radio bearers, and uses the second subscriber identity card to register an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service with the second service network via the IPsec tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Tsai, Chi-Chen Lee, Te-Huang Liu, Chin-Han Wang, Yu-Tien Yeh
  • Patent number: 10554478
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing trouble isolation are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a plurality of sessions for a user group for detecting an abnormal cause code associated with the user group, determines a root cause for the abnormal cause code when a deviation is determined to have occurred for the cause code of the user group, wherein the root cause identifies either an issue associated with the communications network or an issue associated with user endpoint devices of the user group, and generates a ticket indicating the root cause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: He Yan, Anthony Caracciolo, Mira Desta, Zihui Ge, Brian Heard, Sarat Puthenpura
  • Patent number: 10555275
    Abstract: In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Robert W. Peterson, Mark Gerard
  • Patent number: 10547744
    Abstract: Representative methods, apparatus and systems to adjust Do Not Disturb (DND) levels in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. One representative method includes determining, by the WTRU, that a user of the WTRU is participating or is going to participate in a meeting; obtaining, by the WTRU, organizational hierarchy information; determining a priority associated with one or more meeting participants based on the organizational hierarchy information; and adjusting, without user input, a DND level of the WTRU based on the determined priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: IoT Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian C. Hamme, Kenneth F. Lynch, Vincent Roy
  • Patent number: 10536528
    Abstract: A personal multimedia communication system and network for emergency services personnel includes a plurality of personal communication systems linked together and to a base station in a network. Each personal communication system includes a PDA device mounted on a PASS control console, a video camera mounted on the PDA device, a GPS unit, a microphone, and other electronic devices. The various electronic devices are all communicatively connected to the PDA device. Data from the various devices may be collected in the PDA device and wirelessly transmitted to any other node or device in the network, including other personal communication devices. Each personal communication device may serve as a repeater, thus providing a wireless communications link between a device located out of range of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Scott Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig M. Parkulo, Wesley McChord Barbee, Jerald Robert Malin, Jeffrey Lynn Landis, Matthew Shannon
  • Patent number: 10531230
    Abstract: Systems and methods for confirming the presence of a person or asset for a given purpose, and recording this information in a distributed ledger. The distributed ledger records and confirms presence indicia in connection with a transaction said facilitates remote and/or automated signatures. The systems and methods detect the presence of one or more humans and/or computing devices at a specific location at the time of a transaction, and contemporaneously recording information concerning the transaction in a distributed ledger. Presence can be determined using network presence sensing (NPS), other types of sensors, or the combination of NPS with other sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Ivani, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Wootton, Boris Dieseldorff, Justin McKinney