Patents Examined by Srilakshmi K. Kumar
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Patent number: 11979799Abstract: As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for dynamic charge computation. In use, a change made to a subscription of a customer is detected, wherein the subscription is associated with a billing cycle. Further, responsive to detecting the change and prior to an end of the billing cycle, at least one charge is computed for the subscription.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITEDInventor: Nitin Kishor Patil
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Patent number: 11963128Abstract: Aspects of the technology evaluate a client device query to identify an IP address-based estimated location of a mobile device (602, 604). One or more candidate wireless stations are selected in accordance with the IP-based estimated location and a location-relevant response to the query is also generated in accordance with the IP-based location. This information is transmitted to the mobile device. (606, 608). The mobile device compares the received information about the candidate wireless stations against one or more actual wireless stations with which the mobile device is in communication (506, 508). Log information is generated as a result of the comparison. The log information is anonymized and transmitted to the network without user ID or other client-identifiable information included in the log. (FIG. 1, 510) The received log information is then used to validate the initial estimated location. Aggregation of log information from multiple devices may be used in the validation process.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Antonio Trapanese, Ankit Gupta, Pawel Walczak
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Patent number: 11963063Abstract: A method includes monitoring a geospatial location of a user of a mobile device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory through the mobile device, date stamping and time stamping the geospatial location of the user through the mobile device, and monitoring, through a server having another processor communicatively coupled to another memory and/or the mobile device, an interaction of the user with the mobile device and/or a device communicatively coupled to the server based on the geospatial location of the user. The method also includes predicting, through the server and/or the mobile device, an event related to the mobile device and/or the device based on the monitoring of the interaction of the user therewith, and enabling, through the server and/or the mobile device, automatic performance of an action on the mobile device and/or the device on behalf of the user in accordance with the prediction of the event.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Vinod Khosla
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Patent number: 11924686Abstract: A computer method and system for analyzing performance of a 5G communication network for determining 4G traffic offload characteristics. Determine relative spectrum efficiency for data downlinks and uplinks in the 5G communication network and determine values for pairs of 4G LTE primary cells and 5G NR primary cells. A heatmap is generated utilizing the determined values for depicting 4G traffic offload characteristics in a 5G communication network wherein the generated heatmap includes a generated line depicting a connection between a LTE PCell to a 5G NR PScell wherein a width of the generated line is scalable relative to a determined percentage of 5G utilized traffic in the 5G communication system.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NETSCOUT SYSTEMS TEXAS, LLCInventors: Zheng Bin Li, Wing F. Lo
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Patent number: 11877210Abstract: A method and a device for assisting the positioning of a device capable of connecting to a Wi-Fi local area network of a domestic gateway of a user. Such a method is implemented by a mobile terminal placed in a domestic environment of the user. The Wi-Fi signal levels emitted by the mobile terminal and received by the domestic gateway originate from the domestic gateway, and at successive time intervals, and an average is calculated during a sliding time window and of a determined duration. This average is compared with a value of at least one determined threshold. A piece of information representative of the area of the domestic environment in which the mobile terminal is located with respect to the domestic gateway, is returned to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ORANGEInventors: Louis-Xavier Carbonnel, Yoann Vincent
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Patent number: 11864071Abstract: An electronic device includes an indoor positioning tag and an indoor positioner. The indoor positioning tag includes a gravity sensor. The indoor positioning tag determines whether to start to transmit a wireless signal according to the acceleration magnitude, the acceleration direction, and the duration of acceleration change detected by the gravity sensor, and adjusts the frequency of the transmission interval of the wireless signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Yan-Cheng Chang, Po-Shan Kao, Cheng-Yang Tseng, Jia-Yang Tsao
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Patent number: 11863996Abstract: An electronic device, a base station, and a method for managing a shared spectrum. The electronic device includes a processor configured to cause the electronic device to obtain coexistence measurement reports (CMRs) from the plurality of BSs; identify interference relationships among the plurality of BSs based on the CMRs; assign a set of BSs to one or more basic allocation units (BAUs) in a plurality of BAUs based on the interference relationships; and transmit a spectrum access grant (SAG) to the set of BSs, wherein the SAG includes BAU assignments for the set of BSs. Each BAU in the plurality of BAUs is a time/frequency unit and the set of BSs includes a primary BS and a secondary BS. The secondary BS can transmit in the one or more BAUs when a transmission of the secondary BS does not interfere with a transmission of the primary BS.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Russell Ford, Jeongho Jeon, Joonyoung Cho, Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam, Matthew Tonnemacher
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Patent number: 11856403Abstract: Intelligent network access technology (NAT) control is described herein. An event associated with a mobile computing device can be detected. Responsive to the event being detected, a subscriber identity module (SIM) associated with the mobile computing device can access location information associated with a location of the mobile computing device. The SIM can access a configuration table storing NAT data provided by a network for controlling which NATs the mobile computing device is permitted to use to access the network. The SIM can determine, based at least in part on the NAT data and the location information, that a requested NAT of the mobile computing device is not a permissible NAT for the mobile computing device in the location and the SIM can cause the mobile computing device to connect to the network via an alternate NAT.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Kyeong Hun An, Mathew George, Nandita Sharma, Phani Ramisetty
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Patent number: 11849423Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices including transmitting, by a server, a first signal to a set of user equipment; receiving, by a user equipment, the transmitted first signal; transmitting a response indicating whether the user equipment is located within a first specified distance from the provider; determining a subset of user equipment that are within the first specified distance; transmitting a second signal to the determined subset of user equipment; transmitting a third signal to the subset of user equipment; receiving the transmitted third signal while a received countdown timer is still running; transmitting a response indicating whether the user equipment is located within a second specified distance from the provider; determining a second subset of user equipment that are within the second specified distance; and transmitting a fourth signal comprising a second specified amount of time to be added to the previously running countdown timer.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Inventors: Elliot Berookhim, Pejman Yedidsion
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Patent number: 11825315Abstract: Magnetic field sensors of mobile devices are used for providing the mobile devices with information at a locally extremely restricted area in that, specifically, a magnetic field modulated with the information is locally generated at this position by an information signal generator.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer Portugal ResearchInventor: Dirk Elias
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Patent number: 11818583Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and device for unlocking communications. The method can include that, after a connection is established with a second device, a preset time interval for communications in an unlocking process is determined. The method can further include that, after the preset time interval for communications is determined, unlocking communication with the second device is performed according to the preset time interval for communications.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Tian Jiang
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Patent number: 11750346Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are described. In one example, a method, on a base station, for providing position measurements signals in a wireless communication network, comprises: determining a plurality of subcarriers for downlink transmission, wherein the plurality of subcarriers for downlink transmission comprise all subcarriers indicated in a resource block of a scheduled time of transmission within a scheduled transmission occasion, wherein the resource block comprises a plurality of symbol periods, wherein each symbol period of the plurality of symbol periods is for transmission of a symbol using one or more subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers; and transmitting at the scheduled time of transmission, and using each subcarrier of the plurality of subcarriers, a wireless position measurement signal at the scheduled transmission occasion, the wireless position measurement signal being part of a sequence of wireless signals representing a position measurement signal bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sven Fischer, Naga Bhushan, Stephen William Edge, Jie Wu, Rayman Wai Pon
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Patent number: 11743828Abstract: A system and method for increasing device efficiency by monitoring and replacing batteries. The system includes a mobile computing device and a data repository, where the data repository is configured to detect a unique device identification, a unique battery identification, a geographic location of the device, and battery information such as the current life of the battery and the number of times the battery has been charged. The mobile computing device in the system communicates the data repository to a processor. The processor calculates when a new battery is needed and the system ships a replacement battery to the facility closest to the location of the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICEInventors: Charles P. McLellan, Sheetal J. Sonis
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Patent number: 11714426Abstract: A positioning system and a method based on neural network models are provided. The positioning method includes collecting WI-FI® fingerprint data; configuring a computing device to receive the WI-FI® fingerprint data, and the computing device includes a processor and a database storing positioning map data and a group of neural network models including a global positioning model, a coarse positioning model and a fine positioning model; configuring the processor to input the WI-FI® fingerprint data and perform the following steps: estimating a global coordinate through the global positioning model; obtaining the corresponding coarse positioning model from a corresponding primary sub-region to estimate an estimated coarse coordinate of a current position; estimating a plurality of estimated fine coordinates of the current position from the corresponding fine positioning model; and performing a merging process on the estimated fine coordinates to generate a final coordinate.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: PSJ INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Chung-Yuan Chen, Alexander I Chi Lai, Ruey-Beei Wu
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Patent number: 11683659Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a moving agent group platooning within a building, the method comprising: a sensing step in which a first moving agent among a plurality of moving agents senses an occurrence of a predetermined event during the plurality of moving agents are platooning, wherein the first moving agent leads the platooning of the plurality of moving agents; and a transferring step in which the first moving agent transfers a group control authority to a second moving agent among the plurality of moving agents, wherein the second moving agent just follows the first moving agent; wherein the second moving agent having the group control authority leads movement of remaining moving agents following the second moving agent.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Taehyun Kim, Beomoh Kim, Jichan Maeng, Jonghoon Chae
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Patent number: 11659079Abstract: A method for receiving audio broadcasts during a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) frame, the method may include (a) opening, during a DECT frame and by a portable point (PP) that is a potential recipient of the audio broadcasts from a fixed part (FP), multiple reception windows that are spaced apart from each other and are allocated to receive signals related to audio broadcast; (b) receiving received signals, by the PP and during the multiple spaced apart reception windows; and (c) processing, by the PP, the received signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: DSP Group Ltd.Inventor: Otmar Rengert
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Patent number: 11647359Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory circuitry, a processor circuitry, a wireless interface, and one or more sensors. The processor circuitry is configured to obtain sensor data from the one or more sensors. The processor circuitry is configured to determine mobility data based on the sensor data. The processor circuitry is configured to control, based on the sensor data, transmission of a positioning message including the mobility data, via the wireless interface, to a location server device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Anders Berggren, Nafiseh Mazloum, Olof Zander, Rickard Ljung, Kåre Agardh, Basuki Priyanto
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Patent number: 11610490Abstract: A control device for a vehicle controls a vehicle configured to provide a ridesharing service by autonomous traveling. The control device for a vehicle includes: a first information acquiring unit configured to acquire first information of a passenger who is supposed to use the ridesharing service; a second information acquiring unit configured to acquire second information of a passenger who has entered the vehicle at a pickup point; a determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is to depart by comparing the first information with the second information; and a vehicle control unit configured to control the vehicle based on a determination result from the determination unit. The determination unit is configured to prohibit departure of the vehicle when the first information does not match the second information.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Wasekura, Michio Ikeda, Shunsuke Tanimori
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Patent number: 11600012Abstract: A method for determining the position of a real object and displaying a virtual object linked to the real object in an augmented reality display device is provided. For this purpose, a tracking system is used to detect a position of the real object) at different consecutive measurement times and in each case to calculate an estimated position for the measurement times. A reliability value is determined on the basis of the detected position of the real object and of the estimated position of the real object and shown in the augmented reality display device. The present method furthermore discloses a corresponding augmented reality system having an augmented reality display device for displaying a real object and a virtual object linked to the real object).Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBHInventors: Hermann Georg Mayer, Hans Schweizer
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Patent number: 11564196Abstract: A computer apparatus is provided for determining one or more peripheral device positions. A primary display of the computer apparatus may be provided with two or more signal receivers disposed at different locations in relation to the primary display and may be configured to receive signals from a signal transmitter at a peripheral device. The computer apparatus may include a processor and a memory configured to provide computer program instructions to the processor to execute a method of: determining a distance from the signal transmitter to each of the two or more signal receivers based on a strength of the received signal; using positioning determination to determine a direction and/or distance to a position of the signal transmitter from the primary display; and configuring the peripheral device based on the determined direction and/or distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Colin Ian Holyoake, John A. Owen