Registration Patents (Class 455/435.1)
  • Patent number: 11153915
    Abstract: A method for controlling information, a base station and a user equipment are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes receiving, by a base station, first signaling from a first user equipment, wherein the first signaling carries an identifier of the first user equipment and information about a preamble sequence, the identifier to be used for random access between the first user equipment and the base station, and the preamble sequence to be used for random access between the first user equipment and second user equipment; and sending, by the base station, second signaling to the first user equipment and the second user equipment, wherein the second signaling carries information about a user equipment cooperation group and the user equipment cooperation group includes the first user equipment and the second user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Xiang, Jiyong Pang, Hongjia Su
  • Patent number: 11147116
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) communicates with one or both of a first 3GPP core network and a second 3GPP core network over one or both of a 3GPP access and a non-3GPP access. The communication includes: receiving, from the first 3GPP core network, a reject message; and searching for another suitable cell or another suitable Access Point (AP), when the reject message is received over the 3GPP access or the non-3GPP access and the UE is registered with the first 3GPP core network or the second 3GPP core network over the 3GPP access or the non-3GPP access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Marko Niemi, Jarkko Eskelinen, Matti Moisanen
  • Patent number: 11146956
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems related to serving gateway extensions for inter-system mobility in integrated small Cell and WiFi networks. An SGW may be extended into a common intermediate gateway for both LTE and WiFi access. A GTP-based “SI a” interface between a TWAN and an SGW is introduced. The STa interface between TWAN and 3 GPP AAA server/proxy is extended to enable selection of an SGW for establishment of the disclosed S1a interface. The extended SGW and protocols may be used to optimize inter-system mobility between LTE small cells and trusted WiFi. SGW and PDN Gateway (PGW) functionality is disclosed to support GTP-based IP flow mobility via multi-access (LTE and WiFi) connectivity to the same packet data network (PDN). Non-access stratum (NAS), EAP, and GTP-C protocols may also be extended to include a “multi-connection” indication in addition to existing “handover” indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: John L. Tomici, Michael F. Starsinic, Qing Li
  • Patent number: 11146595
    Abstract: A service-based architecture (SBA) IP Multimedia Network Subsystem (IMS) network exposes Network Functions (NFs) to nodes within a 5G core network (CN), nodes within the SBA IMS network, and/or nodes within another network. In contrast to the SBA IMS network, legacy IMS networks are non-SBA IMS stateful networks that may utilize the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Utilizing the SBA IMS network, a node in the 5G core network can communicate directly with any node in the SBA IMS network. The SBA IMS network is stateless and open as opposed to stateful and closed as in SIP based legacy IMS networks. In some configurations, the SBA IMS network utilizes a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). For instance, instead of using the application layer SIP protocol, techniques can include using HTTP. The SBA IMS may also connect to legacy SIP IMS networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeeshan Jahangir, Umair Rehmat, Shujaur Mufti, Christopher H. Joul
  • Patent number: 11129124
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first wireless communication circuit supporting near-field communication with APs, a second wireless communication circuit supporting cellular communication with base stations, a processor, and a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Kim, Chaeman Lim, Hyejoong Kang, Bumsoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11129071
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and apparatuses provide a service to user equipment through a dedicated core network. In one method, a base station, also referred to as eNB, receives a non-access stratum (NAS) message from user equipment (UE), and transmits a first initial UE message having the NAS message to a first mobility management entity (MME).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Won, Sunghoon Kim, Songyean Cho
  • Patent number: 11128716
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein include receiving, at a network device, a message including an identifier associated with a subscriber and an identifier associated with a rating group associated with one or more data flows and determining a data quota and one or more usage monitoring thresholds associated with the subscriber. The data quota indicates a first amount of data associated with the rating group that the subscriber is authorized to use during a time period and the one or more usage monitoring thresholds indicate one or more second amounts of data associated with the rating group and one or more service flows that the subscriber is authorized to use during the time period. The network device transmits the data quota and the one or more usage monitoring thresholds, receives data usage information, and processes the data usage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lixia Yan, Barry F. Hoffner
  • Patent number: 11122532
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transceiving a signal, by a user equipment (UE), in association with multi-homing based PSA addition in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a protocol data unit (PDU) session with a first protocol data unit session anchor (PSA); and receiving a new IP address from a session management function (SMF), wherein when the received new IP address is associated with multi-homing based PSA addition, the UE skips performing IMS registration using the new IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventor: Laeyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11122422
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing a gateway device that can properly page a communication terminal managed by a control device even if the control device loses information on the communication terminal when the control device recovers from a failure that has occurred therein. A gateway device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (11) configured to store temporarily allocated identification information temporarily allocated to a communication terminal and an eDRX parameter associated with the communication terminal, and a transceiver (12) configured to, in a case in which downlink data destined for a communication terminal managed by a mobility management device (20) is received after a failure has occurred in the mobility management device (20), transmit a notification message with the temporarily allocated identification information and the eDRX parameter set therein to the mobility management device (20) or another mobility management device (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Kouji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11115832
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique of merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a network design method of a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: setting at least one environmental element related to millimeter wave (mmWave) propagation, on the basis of image information within a set map; grouping a design area within the map into at least one detailed area; and designing a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaesung An, Sungbum Park, Soonyoung Lee, Minsung Cho
  • Patent number: 11109226
    Abstract: The present application relates to an information process method, a computer readable storage medium and a computer device. The method includes: acquiring a first quantity and a conflict probability, the first quantity being the quantity of mobile terminals for which virtual SIM card data is pre-configured, the conflict probability being the probability that multiple mobile terminals use the same virtual SIM card data for connection with a network at the same time; acquiring a first outbound proportion according historical data; and according to the first quantity, the conflict probability and the first outbound proportion, determining the quantity of the virtual SIM card data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiwei Su
  • Patent number: 11100081
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for loading, by a manager, a profile into a memory of a secure element, SE. A profile allows the SE to identify itself to a service. The profile includes a profile element created by reference to a template. A template is identified by an OID identifier, which it keeps despite changes. The manager may transmit an audit request or update the operating system of the SE in order to obtain, in response, a piece of information representative of the version of the template stored by the SE. The manager then identifies any difference in version with the corresponding template it holds. In case of difference, the template of the SE or the template of the manager is updated so as to align their versions. Thus, a profile generated on the basis of this version of the template will be loaded, without malfunction, by the SE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: IDEMIA FRANCE
    Inventors: Jérôme Dumoulin, Marc Pardieu, Cyrille Fougerouse
  • Patent number: 11096245
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method for maintaining service continuity by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes detecting, by the UE, a change in location during a mobility of the UE from one tracking are to another tracking are within a radio access technology which is referred here as a first radio access technology. Further, on receiving the Registration or Tracking area reject from the core network of first radio access technology, the method includes initiating, by the UE, Initial Registration Request or Initial Attach Request procedure, wherein the UE sends an Registration Request or Attach Request message with other registered radio access technology information referred here as second radio access technology to a core network associated with the first radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Lalith Kumar, Danish Ehsan Hashmi, Kailash Kumar Jha, Alok Kumar Jangid, Govind Irappa Uttur
  • Patent number: 11089561
    Abstract: A method of securely registering a User Equipment, UE, with an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network. The method comprises sending from the UE to the IMS network, a Session Initiation Protocol, SIP, REGISTER message comprising information encrypted using the public key part of a public-private key pair belonging to the IMS network or to a controller of the IMS network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Julio Martinez-Minguito
  • Patent number: 11089634
    Abstract: A random access method, base station, and terminal, where a base station detects a first preamble value, and generates at least two random access response messages based on the first preamble value. At least one random access response message includes a second preamble value, and at least one random access response message includes a third preamble value, where the second preamble value is the same as the first preamble value, and the third preamble value is a preamble value obtained after the base station adds a preset accumulation number to the first preamble value. The base station then sends the at least two random access response messages to a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Tu, Bin Jian, Pengfei Li
  • Patent number: 11082842
    Abstract: Networking systems and methods here include utilizing an exchange service in communication with a network service, the network service being in communication with a first network and a second network, the exchange service configured to, receive a formation request to form a consortium of networks among the first network and second network, send provision information to a first AP in the first network regarding the second network and a second AP in the second network regarding the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Doron Givoni, Dave Stephenson, Steve Martin
  • Patent number: 11076377
    Abstract: A base station transmits, in a repetitive first sequence of transmission frames of a wireless channel, first positioning reference signals. The base station transmits, in a repetitive second sequence of transmission frames of the wireless channel, second positioning reference signals. The first positioning reference signals and the second positioning reference signals each facilitate determining a time of arrival of signals communicated on the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Basuki Priyanto, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 11075973
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the prioritization of Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) messages, transmitted by a User Equipment (“UE”), based on a priority class indicator (“PCP”) included in a registration message (e.g., a SIP REGISTER message) from the UE. The PCI may be included in a contact header, a SIP contact Uniform Resource Identifier (“URI”), and/or some other portion of the registration message. A Universal Integrated Circuit Card (“UICC”) may store information indicating the priority class (e.g., in an Access Control Class (“ACC”) Elementary File (“EF”)). One or more network components, such as a Call Session Control Function (“CSCF”) may prioritize SIP messages from the UE based on the priority class indicator included in the registration message by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Toby Varughese John, Shashi Kotvali, Bibi M. Hakimzadeh, James S. Abraham, Temitola I. Okunoren
  • Patent number: 11076333
    Abstract: A location management method and a location management device are provided by the present disclosure. The location management method includes: storing, by a network side, location information of User Equipment (UE), when the UE transmits uplink data; or updating, by the network side, the location information of the UE, when the UE reselects another cell and issues a cell update report to an accessed base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11075853
    Abstract: A resource prioritization system and method for processing request communications by prioritizing resources based on obtainment parameters and establishing communication channels. The resource prioritization system and method may receive a request from a user device. The request can include content related to a request specification and can be associated with a request location. The resource prioritization system and method can process the request to identify one or more resources having one or more characteristics corresponding to the request content and associated with resource locations near the user location. A communication channel can then be established between the user device and a device associated with an identified resource, such that the user can submit queries to the resource and receive query responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: LIVEPERSON, INC.
    Inventors: Grant Lawrence Miller, Marc Campbell
  • Patent number: 11064550
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to attempt a packet-data connection for a first number of attempts, including a predetermined short delay between each unsuccessful attempt. The processor is also configured to delay for a longer predetermined delay determined based on a predetermined long delay less a total duration of preceding failed connection attempts, responsive to another failed connection attempt after failures for the first number of attempts, and repeat the attempt and delay steps until a connection is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Issam Ayoub, Said Abdallah, Ritesh Pandya
  • Patent number: 11057805
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a mobility management method. The method includes sending, by a network side device, a RRC connection reconfiguration message to an Internet of Vehicles terminal when determining that network handover is required to be performed for the Internet of Vehicles terminal; and receiving, by the Internet of Vehicles terminal, the RRC connection reconfiguration message sent by the network side device, and after completing reconfiguration of a radio resource according to the RRC connection reconfiguration message, sending to the network side device a RRC connection reconfiguration completion message carrying current physical location information of the Internet of Vehicles terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Ma, Yaying Wang, Jianfeng Ding, Yong Lv
  • Patent number: 11051166
    Abstract: A method for controlling access to a computing device which involves detecting, at a key device, one or more wireless devices configured as wireless access points. A handshake operation involving the key device and the computing device is performed wherein the computing device is included among the one or more wireless devices. Wireless signals transmitted by the computing device are received, during a calibration phase, at the key device. During the calibration phase the key device determines an approximate signal strength corresponding to a desired distance between the key device and the computing device. Based upon a received signal strength of other wireless signals transmitted by the computing device, it may be detected that the key device and the computing device are separated by at least the desired distance. If so, the computing device may be electronically locked or user access to it otherwise inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Vlad Mihai Buliga, Alexandru Cosmin Vlajoaga, Raluca Iulia Stanciu, Robert A. Clyde
  • Patent number: 11051217
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method of de-activating a local internet protocol access (LIPA) bearer supporting local breakout in a dual-connectivity architecture. When a master eNodeB (MeNB) determines to change a secondary eNodeB (SeNB) serving a user equipment (UE) or hand the UE over from the MeNB to an eNB, the MeNB may trigger a LIPA bearer de-activation process, and then trigger the process of change the SeNB serving the UE or hand the UE over from the MeNB to the eNB. Various examples also provide another method and an apparatus for de-activating a LIPA bearer, for bearer switch, for establishing a LIPA bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lixiang Xu, Hong Wang, Xiaowan Ke
  • Patent number: 11051352
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to operate in dual connectivity (DC) and with split radio bearers, such that one or more split radio bearers are associated with a first cell group and one or more split radio bearers are associated with a second cell group. In some cases, a cell group failure may occur. Accordingly, the UE may autonomously update one or more radio bearer configurations of the split radio bearers to determine a processing scheme for the cell group failure. Additionally or alternatively, as a result of the cell group failure, an amount of unacknowledged data in a radio link control (RLC) buffer for the second cell group may get stuck such that the network cannot access it. Accordingly, the UE may perform a PDCP data recovery (e.g., user plane handling) to access the unacknowledged data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Yu-Ting Yu, Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11039413
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for managing a connection state of a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) that is in Mobile Initiated Communication Only (MICO) mode are disclosed. One representative method may include the WTRU obtaining information indicating that the WTRU is to initiate registration prior to sending a Service Request (SR). The representative method may further include the WTRU sending a registration request in accordance with the obtained information and sending a SR after registering with a Network Entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: IDAC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad, Behrouz Aghili, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11038931
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for Internet Protocol based Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) registration and device, a communication device, and a storage medium. The method for IMS registration includes determining whether a network side supports an IMS service; acquiring, based on an IMS Access Point Name (APN), an address for the IMS registration when the network side supports the IMS service; performing the IMS registration based on the acquired address for the IMS registration; and initiating an IMS re-registration when the IMS registration fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wentao Li, Hengbin Cui
  • Patent number: 11039417
    Abstract: For paging user devices that are link budget limited (LBL), a base station transmits a special ID that is used by said devices to identify a paging frame and/or a paging occasion. When transmitting a paging message for an LBL device, the base station may use: (a) larger aggregation and larger CFI (than conventionally allowed) and (b) a larger number of resource blocks (than conventionally allowed) for paging payload. If paging messages for LBL devices saturate the paging frame capacity, the base station may allocate a plurality of special IDs. If paging messages for LBL devices and/or other data transfers saturate network capacity, at least a subset of the LBL devices may be directed to enter a connected-state discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein those devices will remain in connected mode and periodically check for resource allocations. Paging payload information may be repeatedly transmitted in successive subframes, to support soft combining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Moustafa M. Elsayed
  • Patent number: 11032331
    Abstract: In some aspects, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy server of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure is configured to process SIP registration requests. In operation, the SIP proxy server receives a single SIP registration request that includes a plurality of IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs). The SIP proxy server then authenticates the plurality of IMPUs to determine which of the plurality of IMPUs are authorized IMPUs. A plurality of SIP registrations are then performed by the SIP proxy server, wherein each SIP registration of the plurality of SIP registrations is a SIP registration of a respective authorized IMPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shelby Seward, Robert F. Piscopo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11032324
    Abstract: A method is presented for secure communication, the method including generating a signature using a private key, a nonce, and at least one of an identifier and a key component; and transmitting the signature, the nonce, a security parameter, and the at least one of the identifier and the key component, wherein the security parameter associates a user identity with a public key, the public key being associated with the private key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Eoin Buckley, Michael Charles Hollatz, Robert John Lambert, Nevine Maurice Nassif Ebeid
  • Patent number: 11032795
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes: a memory configured to store a plurality of instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the plurality of instructions to: calculate a first paging group index of the UE by using the following formula: Paging_GroupID=floor(UE_ID/nB); where, Paging_GroupID is the first paging group index, UE_ID based on an identity of the UE, nB is a parameter associate with paging occasions and floor denotes a rounded down operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yulong Shi, Haibo Xu, Wei Xi
  • Patent number: 11032685
    Abstract: Some services offered by M2M service layers will have contact information that will be used in order to interact with applications. For example, a service layer may need to send notification messages to an application. To do this, the service layer relies on stored contact information to know how to reach the application. If the device hosting the application moves and the application changes its contact information, then the contact information that is in the service layer is stale. As a result, these services will be inefficient, or in some cases, fail altogether. Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods to enable mechanisms to update stale contact information in M2M service layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Rocco Di Girolamo, Quang Ly, Dale N. Seed, Zhuo Chen, William Robert Flynn, IV, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, Shamim Akbar Rahman
  • Patent number: 11019537
    Abstract: A fallback mechanism for managing voice over fifth generation (5G) communications is described. In an example, server computing device(s) associated with a 5G network can receive, from a mobile computing device, a request to initiate a voice call over the 5G network. The server computing device(s) can detect a failure to establish the voice call via the 5G network and responsive to detecting the failure to establish the voice call via the 5G network, the server computing device(s) can send, to the mobile computing device, an indication that the voice call failed. The indication can include an instruction to re-attempt to establish the voice call via a different network, and the instruction can cause the mobile computing device to re-attempt, in association with the request, to establish the voice call via the different network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Christopher H. Joul
  • Patent number: 11017650
    Abstract: Disclosed are a safety service system and a method thereof. The safety service system comprises: a collection unit for collecting position information and image information related to a protected person who is registered by a protector; and a service providing unit for providing the position information and the image information to one or both of the protector and a security company upon detection of a signal that the protected person is in danger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: THINKWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ji Young Lee, Yong Rae Jo, Jung Hwa Yoo, Ji Hyun Yoo
  • Patent number: 11012577
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates a method performed in a first Radio network node, serving a first service area, of notifying a Core Network node, CN, of a change of service area for a User Equipment, UE. The method comprises detecting that the UE has changed location between the first service area and a second service area served by at least a second Radio network node, wherein the first and second service areas are being associated with a respective service charge, and providing a notification to the Core Network Node informing about the change of service area for the UE, the indication enabling a CN function to change the service charge for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jari Vikberg, Fredric Kronestedt, Magnus Lundevall
  • Patent number: 11013054
    Abstract: A wireless device sends a first radio resource control (RRC) message to a first base station. The first RRC message may indicate one or more first frequency band combinations that the wireless device is capable of communicating with the first base station. During an RRC connection with the first base station, a cell of a second base station for monitoring one or more downlink channels may be selected. One or more second frequency band combinations may be determined based on: one or more operating frequency bands of the cell; the one or more first frequency band combinations; and radio transceiver capability of the wireless device. During the RRC connection with the first base station, a second RRC message indicating the one or more second frequency band combinations may be transmitted to the first base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, JinSook Ryu
  • Patent number: 11012838
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method can comprise sending identification data representative of an identification of a base station device to a subscriber identity module. In response to the sending the identification data, the method can comprise receiving status data representative of a response from the subscriber identity module, and based on the receiving the status data, sending, fetch data representative of a command to be acquired from the subscriber identity module. Additionally, the method can comprise receiving, from the subscriber identity module, command data associated with the command to be performed by the mobile device. Furthermore, based on the receiving the command data, the method can comprise sending, to the base station device, response data representative of whether the command has been determined to have been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yupeng Jia, Yonghui Tong, Hongyan Lei
  • Patent number: 11006253
    Abstract: Follow-the-user (FTU) service can be implemented within a telecommunication data services platform to provide flexibility for end users to use their service subscriptions with any capable devices/vehicles. Currently, service subscriptions are generally tied to one device/vehicle that can be used to access the services, instead of the actual end user who uses the services. Therefore, a device/vehicle identifier can be utilized in accordance with an online billing and identification platform to identify end-user subscribers and associate their subscription services to a device/vehicle for which they are utilizing collect service usage, as well as to assign to its owner for the billing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Mei Tong, Leonard Burnett, Vadim Nerovnia, John Croft
  • Patent number: 11005820
    Abstract: Management of a Security Association (SA) between an Internet protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and a terminal in a communication system. A method of operating a Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) device includes determining a need to establish an SA due to a loss of SA information of a terminal, and transmitting a message for informing the loss of the SA information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shijae Lee
  • Patent number: 10997557
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Callum Henderson-Begg, April Underwood, Leah Jones, Myles Grant, Todd Wirth, Eric Vierhaus, Samantha Stoller, Gregory Pelly, Yongxing Deng, Matthew Mullen
  • Patent number: 10999729
    Abstract: The present application discloses a discovery method and device, and relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, to resolve a problem that existing two communication parties cannot accurately discover each other, and then it cannot be ensured that the two communication parties perform service communication in a Prose manner. The method provided in the present application includes: sending a discovery message, where the discovery message includes application layer identifier information of a discovery target, and the discovery target is at least one target user or at least one communications group of a first user that uses the first MCPTT UE; and receiving a response message sent by second MCPTT UE, where the response message includes a layer 2 identifier of the second MCPTT UE and an application layer identifier of a user that uses the second MCPTT UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yizhuang Wu, Yanmei Yang
  • Patent number: 10993178
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique of fusing a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology and a system thereof, and provides an intelligent service based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from an AMF, a first message including first information for identifying the AMF, the first information being assigned upon a successful registration to a first access; determining whether a second access is located in a same PLMN of the first access; and transmitting, to an access network entity of the second access, a second message requesting registration to the second access and including second information for identifying the AMF, in case that the second access is located in the same PLMN of the first access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventors: Youngkyo Baek, Sunghoon Kim, Hoyeon Lee, Jungje Son
  • Patent number: 10986579
    Abstract: A communication technique of integrating a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) with an IoT technology, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, or a connected car, health care, digital education, retails, security and a safety related service, and the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. According to various embodiments, a device and a method for optimizing mobile initiated communication only (MICO) mode related parameter values for reducing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoonseon Han, Sunghoon Kim, Sangjun Moon, Jungshin Park, Jungje Son, Hoyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 10986499
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for mobility management among multiple network slices. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor that establishes a first connection with a primary network slice and establishes a second connection with a secondary network slice of the same network while maintaining the first connection. In response to the processor detecting a mobility management (“MM”) event for the remote unit, the transceiver transmits a single MM request to the primary network slice via the first connection and receives a MM response via the first connection. In various embodiments, each network slice in the mobile communication network supports at least one of a plurality of service types, and wherein the MM response includes an update result for a service type provided by the primary network slice and a service type provided by the secondary network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Apostolis Salkintzis
  • Patent number: 10977425
    Abstract: A mobile phone. The mobile phone comprises a radio frequency transceiver, memory, processor, and browser application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the browser application establishes persistent connection with a content site, downloads a page from the content site by radio frequency transceiver, wherein the web page comprises content and at least one of a style sheet and a script code, presents the page based at least in part on the style sheet and the script code, caches the style sheet and the script code, receives a notification from the content site that one of the style sheet or the script code has been updated, downloads at least one of the updated style sheet or the updated script code based on the notification, and presents the page based at least in part on the at least one of the updated style sheet or the updated script code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Kevin V. Jadunandan
  • Patent number: 10979966
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to e.g. a method performed by a first radio network node for handling communication of a wireless device in a wireless communication network comprising at least a first cell and a second cell configured over at least partly a same bandwidth. The first radio network node transmits a first SI over the first cell, wherein the first SI comprises one or more network IDs and one or more access configurations for the one or more network IDs, and wherein the one or more network IDs are associated to a service that is prioritized over other services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Christofer Lindheimer, Martin Hessler
  • Patent number: 10979967
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The present disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The present disclosure provides a method for preventing a legacy terminal from camping on an enhanced LTE (eLTE) base station that is connected to only a next generation (NG) core by combining a legacy information element (IE) and a new IE carried in system information broadcast by the base station in a next generation mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Soenghun Kim, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 10973073
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for connection processing between a terminal and base station, wherein, the method includes: the base station receiving the first request message carrying the terminal identity information that is transmitted by the terminal, wherein, the terminal identity information is used to indicate the identity of the terminal, and the first request message is used to request the base station to resume the connection between the terminal and network; the base station searches for context information matching the terminal identity information; when the base station finds the context information, it uses the context information to resume the connection with the terminal. Adopting the technical solutions provided by the present embodiments solves the problem of complex connection processing between the terminal and network in the related art, and achieves high-speed connection resumption between a terminal and network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ting Lu, Yuanfang Yu, Yin Gao, Xiubin Sha
  • Patent number: 10972870
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a downlink data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a user plane device, downlink data of a terminal, sending, by the user plane device, the downlink data by using a shared bearer to an access network device that is in a tracking area of the terminal, receiving, by the access network device, a context setup request message sent by a control plane device, setting up, by the access network device, a radio bearer between the access network device and the terminal based on the context setup request message, and sending, by the access network device, the downlink data to the terminal by using the radio bearer. In this way, a downlink data transmission delay is reduced and downlink data transmission efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shi, Qianghua Zhu
  • Patent number: 10965738
    Abstract: Techniques for correlating and load balancing IMS traffic in a visibility network are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a packet broker of the visibility network can receive IMS traffic replicated from an IMS core network and identify control/data packets in the IMS traffic that are part of the same IMS session based on FROM and TO user identities included in the packets. The packet broker can then generate a unique session identifier for the IMS session and add the generated session identifier to the packets. In certain embodiments, the packet broker can further provide the generated session identifier as input to a load balancing algorithm or rule set. The load balancing algorithm or rule set can output an egress port of the packet broker through which the control/data packets should be forwarded based on the session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Senthil Kumar Ramakrishnan, Shivaprasad Masanapura Nanjaiah