Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Patent number: 11216480
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system includes generating a graph data structure including a plurality of data points. A query for the graph data structure may be received via a user interface. At least one data point from the plurality of data points may be identified, via the user interface, in the graph data structure based upon, at least in part, the query. A selection of a data point from the identified at least one data point may be received via the user interface. The selected data point may be provided to one or more electronic data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Mehmet Mert Öz, Matthais Helletzgruber, Peter Ungar
  • Patent number: 11218668
    Abstract: One variation of a method for video conferencing includes, during a setup period: accessing a test video feed; and generating a face model, representing facial characteristics of a first user depicted in the test video feed, based on features detected in the test video feed. The method also includes, during an operating period: accessing a video feed; representing constellations of facial landmarks, detected in frames in the video feed, in a feed of facial landmark containers; representing sets of facial muscle actions, detected in frames in the video feed, in a feed of facial expression containers; and transforming the feed of facial landmark containers, the feed of facial expression containers, and the face model into a feed of synthetic face images according to the synthetic face generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Present Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Mireles, Yousif Astarabadi, Shaun Astarabadi, Emil Romanus, Kristina Nikkhah
  • Patent number: 11217096
    Abstract: A traffic flow dynamic guiding method based on a region block includes: building communication connection with a cloud server by a vehicle-mounted terminal; performing data acquisition by the vehicle-mounted terminal, and uploading acquired data to the cloud server; receiving feedback of the cloud server by the vehicle-mounted terminal which is including an accident occurring probability of a current automobile in a set range of a current road section; sending the probability to a driver in a human-computer interaction mode; receiving communication addresses, sent by the cloud server, of the surrounding vehicle-mounted terminals in the set range by the current vehicle-mounted terminal in order to build a connection relationship with the surrounding vehicle-mounted terminals; performing running and updating after the region block relationship is built; performing traffic flow guiding on traffic accident information and performing traffic flow guiding on official vehicles by using the region block relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHANDONG PROVINCIAL COMMUNICATIONS PLANNING AND DESIGN INSTITUTE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lizhi Zheng, Wenbo Ji, Yiwu Li, Tao Li, Xibo Li, Bin Hao, Zengjin Li, Xufei Jiao, Jibin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11216264
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for embodiments of a mobile virtualization platform (MVP) that may be embedded in an end user mobile device or comprise part of the firmware loaded on the device. The MVP may implement a thin layer of software embedded on the device to decouple applications and data from the underlying hardware, thus enabling the device to concurrently run multiple operating systems. Furthermore, the MVP may enable applications to run concurrently per each base band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Connelly, Hari Venkatram Pedaprolu, Bhagabati Prasad Maharana, James Tobin
  • Patent number: 11219016
    Abstract: A method and a device in a communication node used for wireless communications is disclosed in the present disclosure. The communication node first receives first information and second information; and transmits a first radio signal in a first time window; and then transmits a second radio signal; the first information is used to determine a target time window, the second radio signal occupies a second time window in time domain, and the second information is used to determine at least one of whether the second time window belongs to the target time window or a relative position relationship between the second time window and the target time window; an end of the first time window is earlier than a start of the target time window. The present disclosure helps improve the utilization ratio of resources in Grant-Free transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11215689
    Abstract: An autonomous distress tracking system for an aircraft is described. The system can include a transponder configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) emissions and an RF detector unit configured to detect the RF emissions. The system can further include an alert system that is in communication with the RF detector unit and be configured to activate a distress radio beacon if no RF emissions are detected within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Polynin, Jarett Alan Malone, Christophe Hamel
  • Patent number: 11218935
    Abstract: A Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) communications link between a wireless access point of a non-cellular network and a cellular base station of a cellular network is implemented and used to support load management operations in a communications system including a cellular network and a non-cellular network. A service management system uses UE performance information and network statistics communicated over the NB-IoT communications link to evaluate network loading with regard to congestion in the non-cellular network. The session management system initiates a communications session for congestion control to offload a session from a congested network to a less congested network. The NB-IoT link is used to communicate session handoff related signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11215730
    Abstract: A close range microwave imaging method and system is provided. The method comprises: controlling a linear antenna array consisting of a preset number of antennas to rotate along a preset arc trajectory so as to scan a target region; controlling the linear antenna array to acquire a preset number of echo data at azimuthal positions on the arc trajectory and to send an echo data set constituted by the preset number of echo data to a signal processing device until the linear antenna array completes the acquisition of echo data at preset azimuthal positions on the arc trajectory; and controlling, every time the signal processing device receives the echo data set, the signal processing device to perform imaging processing on the echo data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Lingxia Guo, Chao Sun, Xiaoxiang Hou, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11216347
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides resource locators keyed to resource names with failover alternate resource locators keyed to resource positions on user interfaces in a test environment: providing a central repository for resource locators and storing a set of alternative locator expressions for a resource in the central repository. The set includes first resource locators keyed to resource names on UIs and respective second resource locators keyed to resource positions on UIs that can be evaluated when the resource name in the respective first resource locator is invalid. The method invokes a resource location navigator to locate a particular resource using a first resource locator keyed to a resource name on the user interface, automatically invoking the resource location navigator using the second resource locator keyed to the resource position after failure of locating the particular resource using the resource name, and accessing the particular resource using the second resource locator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Holt, Saif Ahmed, Alireza Akbari McQuee
  • Patent number: 11218762
    Abstract: An archive model can be used for managing networked storage of recorded content, such as network DVR (digital video recorder) content. Content may be initially recorded to an active storage device, with individual duplicate copies recorded for each requesting user, and subsequently archived to an archive storage device. For playback, the content can be reconstituted into the active storage device prior to delivery to the requesting user. Content can be predictively reconstituted in anticipation of user needs, and the reconstitution capacity of the system can be dynamically reallocated for load balancing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Walker, Bruce Bradley, Thomas Day, Robert Gaydos, John Leddy, Weidong Mao
  • Patent number: 11218775
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to determining variations or changes to a predetermined programming schedule. In accordance with one method, a predicted end time of video content may be determined to be later than a scheduled end time of the video content. Also, it may be determined that video content scheduled to be displayed on a first stream or channel has been moved to a second stream or channel. A scheduled recording or transmission time of video content may be altered based on detected changes to the predetermined programming schedule. A program listing such as an electronic program guide may be revised based on detected changes to the predetermined programming schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Curtis, Erik Schwartz, Stefan Deichmann, Jan Neumann
  • Patent number: 11219063
    Abstract: According to one configuration, a system includes a mobile communication device in communication with a wireless base station. During operation, the mobile communication device detects one or more conditions associated with the wireless network environment. Based on the one or more detected conditions, the mobile communication device selects amongst multiple channel access procedures to communicate with the wireless base station and establish a wireless communication link. The mobile communication device can be configured to include supplemental data in a message to the wireless base station to indicate a reason for the mobile communication device selecting a particular channel access procedure of the multiple channel access procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmad Reza Hedayat, Amitav Mukherjee, Maulik V. Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11218244
    Abstract: Disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are an information transmission method and apparatus, the method comprising: a terminal receives indication information sent by a network device, the indication information being used for the terminal to determine an uplink area in a time unit in which an uplink shared channel is transmitted; the terminal sends the uplink shared channel in the uplink area; hence, the terminal receives the indication information sent by the network device and determines transmission resources for the uplink shared channel on the basis of the indication information, thus ensuring correct transmission of the uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 11218943
    Abstract: An electronic device (12) in a cluster (10) that has the potential to serve as a new cluster head (36) receives cluster head assistance data from a current cluster head (36) device. The cluster head assistance data includes at least one data item related to establishment of operative communication with the wireless communications network (28) over a network communications interface (26) of the electronic device. If the electronic device is assigned to be the new cluster head, it injects the at least one data item into a process related to operation of the network communications interface and establishment of the operative communication with the wireless communications network; establishes the operative communication with the wireless communications network; and carries out cluster head functions on behalf of the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS EUROPE B.V.
    Inventors: Henrik Sundstrom, Magnus Tillgren, Magnus Johansson, Anders Sandwang, Magnus Svensson
  • Patent number: 11218913
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an air-interface protocol stack configuration method, a data transmission method, an air-interface protocol stack configuration device and a data transmission device. The air-interface protocol stack configuration method includes steps of: configuring an air-interface protocol stack to be used for data transmission in accordance with data transmission characteristics of communication ends for the data transmission; and transmitting configuration information or identification information about the air-interface protocol stack to at least one of the communication ends for the data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Chen, Bin Jiao, Fei Qin
  • Patent number: 11218889
    Abstract: A wireless communication network serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) and comprises a wireless access node and a support access node. The wireless access node determines a sector power ratio for the support access node. The wireless access node determines an add threshold for the support access node based on the sector power ratio for the support access node. The wireless access node determines an add value for the support access node and determines when the add value is greater than the add threshold. When the add value is greater than the add threshold, the wireless access node signals the support access node to serve the wireless UE and signals the wireless UE to attach to the support access node. In response, the support access node wirelessly transfers user data for a wireless communication service to the wireless UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11219045
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method including accessing a cell operating in an unlicensed spectrum and configuring at least one physical shared channel in the cell; indicating, by DCI, the number of slots scheduled for a current physical shared channel if the number of aggregated slots for the at least one physical shared channel configured by RRC signaling is greater than 1; and indicating, by the DCI, at least one piece of time-domain resource allocation information. The time-domain resource allocation information includes: an offset value between a slot where the physical shared channel is located and a slot where a physical downlink control channel is transmitted; a starting symbol position of the physical shared channel; length information of symbols of the physical shared channel; and a mapping type of the physical shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Spreadtrum Hi-Tech Communications Tech.
    Inventor: Su Huang
  • Patent number: 11216830
    Abstract: A method of analyzing location data of mobile communication devices. The method comprises determining a dwell time of each of a plurality of mobile communication devices in location clusters associated with each device by an application that executes on a computer, determining a centroid of the location clusters by the application, for each of the plurality of mobile communication devices, determining by the application centroids of the location clusters associated with the mobile communication device that are located within a predefined geometry, analyzing by the application the dwell times of mobile communication devices in the predefined geometry based on the determination of centroids that are located within the predefined geometry, and building a building traffic flow survey by the application based on the analysis of dwell times of mobile communication devices in the predefined geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Brooke M. Bobe, Naseer A. Dari, Matthew Habiger, Adam C. Pickett
  • Patent number: 11218152
    Abstract: A charge pump circuit and phase-locked loop include start, bias, current mirror, charging and discharging feedback control, and charging and discharging matching modules, which are electrically connected in sequence. The start module starts the bias module. The bias module generates constant bias current and outputs same to the current mirror module, which receives and amplifies the bias current for output in two paths. The charging and discharging feedback control module detects the output voltage of a charge pump and controls, according to feedback of the output voltage, the current in the charging and discharging matching module, to suppress the mismatch between charging and discharging currents. The charging and discharging matching module receives an external charging or discharging control signal, to charge or discharge the output load of the charge pump. Charging and discharging currents can be matched within a wide output voltage range, without an operational amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATION MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Ding, Haifeng Zhou, Guangsheng Wu, Xiaocong Li
  • Patent number: 11218209
    Abstract: Disclosed are an information transmission method and device for improving CSI feedback performance and providing finer CSI feedback. The information transmission method of the present invention comprises: determining a quantity of layers transmitted on a channel; and determining, according to the quantity of the layers transmitted on the channel, channel state information (CSI) fed back for the respective layers, and transmitting the same, and the CSI fed back for the respective layers comprises information about multi-level beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deshan Miao, Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen, Tamrakar Rakesh