Patents Examined by Tan Trinh
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Patent number: 8892171Abstract: A system, method, and wireless communication device that profiles a user thereof, or a user at a second wireless communication device in communication therewith. The wireless communication device gathers user data for a user thereof, or from a user at a second wireless communication device, and either directly generates, or has generated elsewhere, a user profile, such as a personality or psychological profile, or medical diagnosis of the user, and can display the user profile to the user and/or alter the wireless communication device functionality based upon the user profile. The gathered user data can be from a user interaction with the wireless communication device, from information available to the wireless communication device, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: David J. Ross, Eric C. Rosen
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Patent number: 8892148Abstract: A system, method, and wireless communication device for sharing media in a group communication among a plurality of wireless communications devices, such as among a Push-to-Talk (PTT) group. A wireless communication device that is a member of the communication group can send group-directed media, such as graphics, multimedia and applications, to other members of the communication group, either during a ongoing PTT communication, or independently there from. In one embodiment, a communication computer device stores information on communication groups on the wireless communication network that includes the member wireless communication devices of one or more communication groups, and receives group-directed media from a sending wireless communication device sends the group-directed media either directly to the other member wireless communication devices of the communication group or stores the group-directed media such that the other member devices can access and download the group-directed media.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamsini Bhaskaran, Beth Ann Brewer, Mark Aaron Lindner, Eric Carl Rosen
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Patent number: 8892147Abstract: A system, method, and wireless communication device for sharing media in a group communication among a plurality of wireless communications devices, such as among a Push-to-Talk (PTT) group. A wireless communication device that is a member of the communication group can send group-directed media, such as graphics, multimedia and applications, to other members of the communication group, either during a ongoing PTT communication, or independently there from. In one embodiment, a communication computer device stores information on communication groups on the wireless communication network that includes the member wireless communication devices of one or more communication groups, and receives group-directed media from a sending wireless communication device sends the group-directed media either directly to the other member wireless communication devices of the communication group or stores the group-directed media such that the other member devices can access and download the group-directed media.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamsini Bhaskaran, Beth Ann Brewer, Mark Aaron Lindner, Eric Carl Rosen
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Patent number: 8886115Abstract: A method for controlling gain in a wireless repeater includes computing a gain control metric indicative of a loop gain of the repeater and detecting changes in a signal power of a gain control input signal where the gain control input signal is taken from any point in the feedback loop of the repeater. When a large power swing in the gain control input signal is detected, the method operates to discard at least a portion of each gain control metric measurement for a first duration before continuing with computing the gain control metric. In another embodiment, the method may include discarding samples of the gain control input signal used in computing the gain control metric for a first duration when a large power swing in the gain control input signal is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Michael Mao Wang, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Dhananjay Ashok Gore
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Patent number: 8886167Abstract: Disclosed is a technique to enable a communication node to acquire predetermined newer information (e.g., configuration information) held by another communication node while minimizing power consumption by communication nodes. According to the technique, when receiving a request for configuration information from a new MTC device 100, a MME 220 checks whether an existing MTC device 110 as a request target for configuration information connects or not. When the existing MTC device does not connect, the new MTC device is notified of time information (e.g., next connection time of the existing MTC device, a next connection time of a new MTC device or a next connection time zone of the new MTC device). This time information enables the new MTC device to specify a time after the MME acquires and holds the configuration information from the existing MTC device. The new MTC device reconnects based on this time information, whereby the new MTC device can acquire desired configuration information from the MME.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Keigo Aso, Shinkichi Ikeda, Takahisa Aoyama
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Patent number: 8886259Abstract: A system, method, and wireless communication device that profiles a user thereof, or a user at a second wireless communication device in communication therewith. The wireless communication device gathers user data for a user thereof, or from a user at a second wireless communication device, and either directly generates, or has generated elsewhere, a user profile, such as a personality or psychological profile, or medical diagnosis of the user, and can display the user profile to the user and/or alter the wireless communication device functionality based upon the user profile. The gathered user data can be from physical user interaction with the wireless communication device, or from other equipment resident at the wireless communication device, such as a camera and medical diagnostic devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: David Jonathan Ross, Eric Carl Rosen
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Patent number: 8874027Abstract: A method for controlling gain in a wireless repeater implementing echo cancellation determines a signal-to-interference-noise-ratio (SINR) of the input and output signals of the repeater and adjusts the gain of the repeater to optimize an achievable data rate and a coverage area of the repeater. The repeater gain may be decreased to increase the data rate and increase the achievable SINR of the output signal while the coverage area is reduced. Alternately, the repeater gain may be increased to decrease the data rate and decrease the achievable SINR of the output signal while the coverage area is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Sanjiv Nanda
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Patent number: 8874153Abstract: Interference to a received signal is reduced in a wireless network, the interference comprising intermodulation products of at least a first signal and a second signal. Delayed interference signals comprising simulated intermodulation products are generated on the basis of the first signal and the second signal using a range of differing delay values and each of the delayed interference signals is correlated with the received signal to produce data representing a correlation for each delayed interference signal. At least one delay value is selected in dependence on a the data representative of the correlations and an interference signal comprising simulated intermodulation products generated from the first signal and the second signal using the at least one delay value is combined with the received signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Aceaxis LimitedInventors: David Damian Nicholas Bevan, Simon John Gale, Fiona Maihri Wilson
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Patent number: 8867987Abstract: A method for computing a gain control metric used in controlling gain in a wireless repeater operates to store correlation and normalization values associated with the gain control metric for the previous N samples in registers. For each new sample of the gain control input signal, the correlation and normalization values are computed by discarding the multiplication terms of the obsolete sample and adding the multiplication terms of the new sample to the stored correlation and normalization values. In this manner, the complexity of the computation is greatly reduced and the complexity of the computation does not increase with the integration length.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Michael Mao Wang, Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Tadeusz Jarosinski
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Patent number: 8868123Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth multiple embodiments of the invention. Among those embodiments is a method for managing the power of an uplink signal (e.g., an LTE PUSCH or PUCCH). The method involves determining a convolution of a first function and a second function (which may be power density functions) of the uplink signal and determining the power of the uplink signal based on the convolution. The uplink signal comprises one or both of a data signal (transmitted over a PUSCH, for example) and a control signal (transmitted over a PUSCH or PUCCH, for example). The uplink signal is transmitted over one or more subcarriers (which may be carried by resource blocks, for example).Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Tyler A. Brown
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Patent number: 8855583Abstract: Terminals 1 and 2-1 to 2-n refer to information on the state of the terminals 1 and 2-1 to 2-n and a user to add functions for modifying the operation of the terminal and processing data thereby allowing the operation of the terminal to be modified, and the communication data to be processed, when the state information is in a specific condition. A server 3 accesses the information on the state of the terminals 1 and 2-1 to 2-n and the user on the side of the server 3, extracts terminal group information under a specific condition, generates a new group, and adds a presence linking function for performing registration with a group management function, thereby allowing the above state information to be used to generate a dynamic group.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Naoki Satou
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Patent number: 8849185Abstract: Methods and systems to produce audio output signals from audio input signals. In one embodiment, a first portion of the audio input signals can be pre-processed, with the output used to modulate ultrasonic carrier signals, thereby producing modulated ultrasonic signals. The modulated ultrasonic signals can be transformed into a first portion of the audio output signals, which is directional. Based on a second portion of the audio input signals, a standard audio speaker can output a second portion of the audio output signals. Another embodiment further produces distortion compensated signals based on the pre-processed signals. The distortion compensated signals can be subtracted from the second portion of the audio input signals to generate inputs for the standard audio speaker to output the second portion of the audio output signals. In yet another embodiment, noise can be added during pre-processing of the first portion of the audio input signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: IpVenture, Inc.Inventors: Kwok Wai Cheung, Peter P. Tong, C. Douglass Thomas
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Apparatus and method for controlling power to mitigate interference in wireless communication system
Patent number: 8849327Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling power in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving interference information comprising a resource usage rate, from at least one neighboring BS, calculating a throughput variance amount, which is expected if the serving BS changes power, experienced by the at least one neighboring BS, by using the interference information, calculating a throughput variance amount, which is expected if the serving BS changes power, of at least one Mobile Station (MS) having access to the serving BS, and controlling power for the at least one MS by using the throughput variance amount experienced by the at least one neighboring BS and the throughput variance amount of the at least one MS. The interference information represents a throughput variance amount generated in the at least one neighboring BS when the serving BS changes the power.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nam-Koo Kang -
Patent number: 8838163Abstract: A base station in a wireless communication system and a method for controlling power by the same are provided. The method includes receiving channel state information from a mobile terminal, calculating information regarding a Modulation order Product code Rate (MPR) of the mobile terminal using the channel state information, and controlling transmission power for the mobile terminal according to the information regarding the MPR.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Hyun Yang, Seung-Hee Han, Seung-Joo Maeng, Il-Won Kwon, Jeong-Heon Kim, Seung-Hyun Min, Ji-Won Lee, Seung-Hyeon Nahm
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Patent number: 8831671Abstract: A small base node such as a Home Base Node (HNB), or femto cell, may reduce its transmit power in order to prevent co-channel or adjacent channel interference, or to limit its coverage area. Once the power is set, the HNB signal to a served Home User Equipment (HUE) its transmit Common Pilot Channel (CPICH) transmit power for accurate path loss estimation. When this power is outside of the permissible range, the HNB adjusts other parameters (such as Random Access Channel (RACH) constant value) to compensate for the error in signaled CPICH power, and thus compensate in that process the error in determining path loss. Similarly, if the uplink sensitivity is adjusted, to prevent interference, parameters would also be adjusted and signaled to the HUE to reflect the link imbalance.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aziz Gholmieh, Farhad Meshkati, Mehmet Yavuz, Siddharth Mohan, Christophe Chevallier
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Patent number: 8831672Abstract: A method in a communication system for managing energy consumption of base stations within the communication system includes computing a marginal energy value for a first base station based on an energy source type of the first base station and computing a marginal energy value for a second base station based on an energy source type of the second base station. The method also includes comparing the marginal energy value for the first base station and the marginal energy value for the second base station.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson(publ)Inventors: Pål Frenger, Ove Linnell, Johan Moe
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Patent number: 8825103Abstract: A quality measuring section measures reception quality of a radio signal received by a wireless communication section. A quality information transmitting section transmits reception quality information indicating the reception quality measured by the quality measuring section. A device number calculating section calculates, based on reception quality indicated by reception quality information transmitted from other wireless communication devices and the reception quality measured by the quality measuring section, the number of wireless communication devices, from among the other wireless communication devices, that can communicate with the wireless communication device including this device number calculating section.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Nec CorporationInventors: Toru Yamamoto, Saho Furukawa
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Patent number: 8825016Abstract: A first device including a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit a query to a second device that is remote from the first device. The query is configured to not generate an alert to a user of the second device in response to the second device receiving the query. The receiver is configured to wirelessly receive data from the second device in response to the query transmitted to the second device. The data indicates whether the second device is (i) busy and cannot currently communicate with the first device or (ii) not busy and can currently communicate with the first device. The processor is configured to determine, based on whether the second device is (i) busy and cannot currently communicate with the first device or (ii) not busy and can currently communicate with the first device, whether to communicate with the second device.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: PICO Mobile Networks, Inc.Inventors: Paul Lambert, Lu Chang
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Patent number: 8824407Abstract: A method for network entry management for use in a base station. The method includes steps of broadcasting multiple carriers, wherein the carriers are classified into fully configured carriers and partially configured carriers, the fully configured carrier includes at least one primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) and at least one secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH), and the partially configured carrier includes at least one P-SCH and does not include the S-SCH.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Yan-Xiu Zheng, Ming-Bing Chen
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Patent number: 8825102Abstract: Systems and methods for regulating transmit power in a mobile station to comply with SAR limits are disclosed. A mobile station may include a processor, transmitter, and proximity sensor. The transmitter is configured to operate at a transmit power controlled by a first transmit power limit. The proximity sensor identifies how close the mobile station is to a human head. A transmit power regulator, implemented on the processor, determines the cumulative energy radiated by the transmitter over a specified number of frames. If the cumulative energy exceeds an energy limit based on a SAR limit, and the proximity sensor indicates that the mobile station is close to a human head, the transmit power regulator may decrease the transmit power limit of the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Soumen Chakraborty, Rishi Ranjan, Kamlesh Rath, Manish Airy