Patents Examined by Ted M Wang
  • Patent number: 11917490
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein generate an E911 location report based on an uncertainty associated with a device-based hybrid (DBH) location received from a UE device. The uncertainty may be compared to an uncertainty threshold value to determine which values to include in a location report sent to a PSAP. A civic address associated with a UE device may be included in a location report where the uncertainty is sufficiently low, thus a location report can be sent to a PSAP with the most relevant and accurate information so that first responders can more effectively locate a distressed caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Nan Xiao, Wei-Ming Lan
  • Patent number: 11910354
    Abstract: According to various examples, a method for operating a wireless communication device (200) connectable to a cellular network (50) comprising a plurality of cells (300-340) is provided. The method comprises receiving (701), from the cellular network (50), configuration information for delaying a transmission of a paging area update request that triggers a paging area update of a paging area of a paging operation of the wireless communication device (200). Furthermore the method comprises, when operating in a disconnected mode associated with the paging operation, determining (703) that the paging area update is required, and upon determining (703) that the paging area update is required, delaying (708) the transmission of the paging area update request in accordance with the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Torgny Palenius, Johan Hill
  • Patent number: 11909573
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device (e.g., a base station or a user equipment (UE)) may identify a sequence length corresponding to a number of resource blocks, and select a modulation scheme based on the sequence length. The device may select, from a set of sequences associated with the modulation scheme, a sequence having the sequence length. In some examples, the set of sequences may include at least one of a set of time domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences or a set of frequency domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences. The device may generate a reference signal for a data transmission based on the sequence and transmit the reference signal within the number of resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang, Seyong Park, Gokul Sridharan, Peter Gaal, Alexandros Manolakos, Xiao Feng Wang, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11885900
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for tracking a mobile device based on a series of motion measurements of said device comprises retrieving a topological map providing a graph of topological paths, wherein each topological path is associated with a corresponding path direction; statistically generating, on a virtual map, a plurality of particles around an estimated initial position of the mobile device, representing an initial uncertainty of said estimated initial position of the mobile device; determining, from said series of motion measurements, a measured displacement vector of the mobile device representing an estimated displacement direction and an estimated displacement distance of the mobile device; displacing each of said particles on the virtual map according to a randomized particle displacement vector which is derived from said measured displacement vector based on an uncertainty of the measured displacement vector and recording said particle displacement vector for each displaced particle; determining
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Technische Universität München
    Inventors: Georgios Pipelidis, Nikolaos Tsiamitros, Christian Prehofer
  • Patent number: 11884398
    Abstract: A queue system for a lavatory of an aircraft can include a queue module configured to receive a request from a user input device and to create and/or modify a virtual lavatory queue based on a request hierarchy of the request to position the request in the virtual lavatory queue, and a sensor operatively connected to the queue module and configured to output a state change signal indicative of a user leaving the lavatory. The queue module can be configured to receive the state change signal, iterate the virtual lavatory queue in response to the state change signal, and output a vacancy indicator signal to an indicator device associated with a request that is at a front of the virtual lavatory queue after iterating the virtual lavatory queue to indicate to a user that it is the user's turn in the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Schmalz, Mudar Abu-Saymeh
  • Patent number: 11887171
    Abstract: A system for localized subscriber control of electric provider billing comprising: a digital assistant in communication with powerline sensors, the powerline sensors configured to detect weather, natural disaster, or other event that compromises the electric grid in a given predetermined region, a smart utility box in operational communication with a subscriber's utility connection and in communication with the digital assistant, wherein the smart utility box is configured to disconnect from a utility and stop incurring charges from the utility if the smart utility box determines that utility prices may exceed a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph J. Bango, Michael E. Dziekan
  • Patent number: 11885899
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating map information of an environment using channel state information (CSI) of wireless signals received by access points (APs) in the environment are disclosed. In some implementations, a system uses CSI of a wireless signal received by a respective AP to determine a time-of-flight (ToF) and an angle-of-arrival (AoA) of one or more reflected path signal components of the wireless signal, and estimates the locations of points or surfaces in an area of the respective AP based on the ToF and AoA of the reflected path signal components. The estimated locations of the points or surfaces can be used to generate map information for the area. The system aggregates map information generated for different areas of the environment to determine map information for the entire environment. The wireless signals may be received from wireless stations or user equipment, or may be received from the respective AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hadi Givehchian, Xiaoxin Zhang, Peyman Siyari
  • Patent number: 11874399
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor which is capable of minimizing the size of a LIDAR sensor which is capable of performing 3D scanning and setting a region of interest for obtaining point cloud data with the removal of light scattering, by separating a transmitter module and a receiver module; disposing a transmitter, a mirror, and a receiver in a specific space so that light emitted from a light source or light reflected from a transmission mirror is reflected from a first reflection region of a moving mirror and is then moved to a target object, after which light reflected from the target object is reflected from a second reflection region of the moving mirror and is moved to the transmission mirror or a photodiode; installing a blocking wall separating movement paths of light; and adjusting the range of movement of the moving mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: YUJIN ROBOT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Chul Shin, Seong Ju Park, Jae Young Lee, Moo Woong Cheon, Man Yeol Kim
  • Patent number: 11876583
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar for virtual beam steering. The MIMO radar has a plurality of transmit antennas and a receive antenna array having a plurality of radiating elements. The MIMO radar also includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to synthesize a virtual receive array having N×M receive subarrays from the plurality of transmit antennas and the receive antenna array, where N is the number of transmit antennas and M is the number of receiving elements. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a method of virtual beam steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Metawave Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 11876553
    Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Such UWB systems through their receivers may operate in the presence of interfering signals and should provide for robust communications. Accordingly, an accurate and sharp filter that operates at low power is required and beneficially one that does not require a highly accurate power heavy clock. Further, many UWB applications require location and/or range finding of other elements and it would therefore be beneficial to provide a UWB based range finding and/or location capability removing the requirement to add additional device complexity and, typically significant, power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Frederic Nabki, Dominic Deslandes, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Michiel Soer, Rabia Rassil
  • Patent number: 11871374
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring and determining paging opportunities and a system, in which by increasing transmission opportunities of paging, such as increasing total paging opportunities or increasing paging opportunities for paging a specific terminal, a network device may be ensured to find terminal equipment or punctually notify the terminal equipment of update of system information and transfer of public warning system (PWS) information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Meiyi Jia, Qinyan Jiang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11866197
    Abstract: Provided is a target member for accurately guiding a moving body to a target site. A target member 10 is used when performing control for guiding a moving body 20 to a target site, and the target member 10 is formed by using two or more different feature members 11, 12 that are set such that a shape of a target member image 44 that corresponds to the target member 10 captured by an image capturing unit 21 (an image capturing apparatus) that is mounted in the moving body 20 changes according to a measurement distance that indicates a distance between the target member 10 and the moving body 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo Inoshita
  • Patent number: 11864058
    Abstract: A flexible tracking device for monitoring a cable is configured to be secured to the cable by bending around the cable at a bending region of the flexible tracking device. The flexible tracking device includes a flexible substrate, a battery, a device layer, a flexible circuit connecting components of the device layer and the battery, and a flexible cover layer on the substrate covering the flexible substrate, the battery, the device layer, and the flexible circuit. The device layer includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a first wireless communication antenna connected to a first wireless communication interface. The flexible tracking device is configured to undergo a bend in the bending region, wherein the bending region does not overlap with components of the device layer that cannot tolerate bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Hendrik J Volkerink, Ajay Khoche
  • Patent number: 11864061
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking activities of daily living (ADL) of a user are provided. The method monitors data from one or more internet of things (IoT) devices corresponding to one or more ADLs. The method further monitors data from an activity identification module. The data received is related to an ADL and includes one or more steps specific to the ADL. The data related to the ADL is stored in an activity logging database located in a memory and compared to an activity best practices (BP) database. A score that represents a compliance level is calculated based on the compared data. A response that corresponds the compliance level from a response database is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Aerial Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Allegue Martinez, Negar Ghourchian, David Grant, Francois Morel
  • Patent number: 11864059
    Abstract: Techniques for calculating a location of a position consumer device is disclosed. In one example, a network server may create a fingerprint map from reference data points. Each of the reference data points may include a recorded geo-location of a position source device and signal measurements taken at that recorded geo-location. By initially estimating an initial position of the position consumer device, the network server may apply one or more threshold values to filter reference data points—candidates for interpolation. The network server may then perform an interpolation on one or more pairs of reference data points to find a pair of reference data points that is collinear with the estimated position of the position consumer device. The location of the position consumer device may then be calculated based upon geo-locations of position source devices that are associated with collinear reference data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Emile Tran, Antoine Tran, Muhammad Khadim, Nan Xiao, Tony Fung, Chong Kiong
  • Patent number: 11849371
    Abstract: During a positioning session, a user equipment (UE) is provided with an early uplink grant to respond to a request for location service information from a location server. The location service information, for example, may be a request for positioning capabilities, a request for positioning measurements or a position estimate, and may be a request for a single, periodic or triggered location information. The early uplink grant may be requested by the UE prior to needing the uplink grant, e.g., before the positioning measurements have been completed. The location server may instigate the early uplink grant, e.g., at or near the same time that the location server sends the request for information to the UE. The early uplink grant may be used, e.g., during high priority or emergency related positioning sessions, in order to reduce delay in the UE providing a response to the request for location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi, Stephen William Edge, Hem Agnihotri, Amit Priyadarshi
  • Patent number: 11848810
    Abstract: Device, methods and systems for implementing aspects of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation in wireless systems are described. In an aspect, the device may include a surface of an object for receiving an electromagnetic signal. The surface may be structured to perform a non-electrical function for the object. The surface may generate an electrical signal from an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal may be received from a transmitter. The transmitter may map digital data to a digital amplitude modulation constellation in a time-frequency space. The digital amplitude modulation constellation may be mapped to a delay-Doppler domain and the transmitter may transmit to the surface according to an orthogonal time frequency space modulation signal scheme. The apparatus may further include a demodulator to demodulate the electrical signal to determine digital data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Seshadri Sathyanarayan, Shlomo Selim Rakib
  • Patent number: 11843993
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable an ML module to associate RF fingerprints with beam directions and/or beam features to improve the uniqueness of RF fingerprints. In one aspect, network entity may receive, from one or more wireless devices, a plurality of first RF fingerprints, each of the plurality of first RF fingerprints being associated with at least one directional feature and a location. The network entity may receive a request to determine a position of a UE based on at least one second RF fingerprint associated with the UE or captured by the UE. The network entity may estimate the position of the UE based at least in part on matching the at least one second RF fingerprint to at least one of the plurality of first RF fingerprints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah, Srinivas Yerramalli, Taesang Yoo, Rajat Prakash, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11841417
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to wireless communication field and disclose a method for speed measurement and positioning and a terminal. The speed measurement and positioning method in the present disclosure applied to a receiving end comprises: when it is determined that the local oscillation frequency of the receiving end is the same as that of each transmitting end, receiving a test signal transmitted by at least one transmitting end; determining frequency difference between the frequency of the test signal and the local oscillation frequency of the receiving end; determining, according to the frequency difference, the relative speed between the receiving end and the transmitting end corresponding to the test signal; and determining, according to the determined relative speed and first position information of the transmitting end corresponding to the test signal, second position information of the receiving end relative to the transmitting end corresponding to the test signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yibao Luo
  • Patent number: 11843995
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are described in which a network node transmits to a user device preconfiguration information for a plurality of on-demand positioning signal (ODPS) preconfigurations. An ODPS preconfiguration may be selected and communicated. The transmitted ODPS preconfiguration may be a request for transmission, or a notice of transmission, of the selected ODPS. An ODPS, which is associated with or based on the selected ODPS preconfiguration, may be transmitted. The ODPS may include any positioning signal (e.g., any signal that may be used for positioning) that may be transmitted upon request or as needed, and, e.g., may include downlink on-demand positioning reference signals (ODPRS), uplink on-demand sounding reference signals (ODSRS), or other positioning or reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Diomidis Michalopoulos, Taylan Sahin