Patents Assigned to AND Communications
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Patent number: 11172272Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for identifying highlights of a content item, and identifying times, within the content item, to indicate as a beginning of a chapter within the content item. A second content item that corresponds to a portion of the first content item may be identified. The portion of the first content item may be determined to be a highlight of the first content item. Shot boundaries of the content item may be determined, and chapter information corresponding to a different version of the content item may be mapped to the content item.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Hongcheng Wang, Jan Neumann, Jonghyun Choi
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Patent number: 11172489Abstract: A method and apparatus in a user equipment and a base station for narrowband communication based on a cellular network are provided. The user equipment receives first information, and then detects the first wireless signal including at least one of {a first characteristic sequence, a first reference signal, and a second information} in a first time window. The transmitter of the first wireless signal is a second node, and the transmitter of the first information and the second node are non-co-located. The first information determines at least one of {the first time window, a parameter of the first characteristic sequence, a parameter of the first reference signal}. The embodiments save power consumption of the relayed user equipment and ensure that the channel quality of the sidelink is better than the channel quality of the uplink. In addition, the embodiments utilize the first flag bit to reduce the air interface overhead.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Xiaobo Zhang
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Patent number: 11172254Abstract: A television program ratings method and system includes transferring information associated with households from a cable provider to a ratings provider such that the ratings provider has access to information associated with sampled households and lacks access to information associated with non-sampled households. To this end, identity information and usage information associated with the households are respectively anonymized and encrypted. Knowledge of the identities of the sampled households enables the anonymized identity information and the encrypted usage information for the sampled households to be respectively de-anonymized and decrypted. The ratings provider knows which households are sampled households. As such, the ratings provider de-anonymizes and decrypts the information associated with the sampled households and then uses the de-anonymized and decrypted information to determine television program ratings.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Michael A. Chen
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Patent number: 11172273Abstract: A transformer monitor, communication and data collection device features a signal processor configured to receive signaling containing information about collected data, including some combination of electrical signaling data related to electrical signaling being processed by a transformer located and arranged in a grid network and to which the apparatus is mounted, metered data related to associated electrical signaling being provided from the transformer to a building or structure in the grid network, and other wireless network data related to other wireless network communication devices/nodes/end points deployed in the grid network; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about collected data for transmitting back to a central location or other connection device for further processing, based upon the signaling received.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: DELTA ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Scott Foster, Angelo Borrelli, Keith Teichmann
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Patent number: 11172333Abstract: A location of a computing device may be determined by determining the range of a communication. Several different wireless communication protocols and/or wireless networks (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, and/or GPS) may be used to determine the user's location. When the user's location is determined, one or more actions (e.g., granting access to content) may be performed based on the user's location.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Corey Farrell
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Patent number: 11172595Abstract: A tuner includes a housing including an upper housing part and a lower housing part, a printed circuit board arranged in the housing, and an electronics component arranged on the printed circuit board. A region of at least one of the upper housing part and the lower housing part is a heat-conductive material and the electronics component is connected to the region in a heat-transmitting manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Hirschmann Car Communication GmbHInventors: Thomas Adam, Wolfgang Sautter, Uwe Daum, David Silva, Ralf Amler
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Patent number: 11172399Abstract: A default quality of service (QoS) control method and device for solving the problem in the prior art that there is no solution for generating a default QoS rule for a NextGen network. In embodiments of the present disclosure, an SMF entity determines a target PCC rule from at least one PCC rule sent by a PCF entity; the SMF entity generates, according to the target PCC rule, a default QoS rule corresponding to a PDU session, and sends the default QoS rule to a UE. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, because the connectivity and QoS control of the PDU session are ensured, and the target PCC rule used by the SMF to generate the default QoS rule is determined by the PCF entity for a PDU session of the UE, the precise control for a specific UE and a specific PDU session is implemented, and the system performance is further improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yali Guo, Hucheng Wang
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Patent number: 11172447Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sending information and channel monitoring processing. The method comprises: when a terminal receives a wake-up signal and is woken up, monitoring, within a time window, a paging channel and/or a control channel in a discontinuous reception or an extended discontinuous reception manner; if the terminal receives a paging message and/or control channel scheduling information within the time window, then processing the paging message and/or processing the control channel scheduling information; and if the terminal does not receive a paging message and/or control channel scheduling information within the time window, then not monitoring the paging channel and/or control channel any more, and continuing to receive a wake-up signal. A base station sends the wake-up signal to the terminal, and sends, within a time window, information over a paging channel and/or a control channel in a discontinuous reception or an extended discontinuous reception manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing Liang, Wei Bao, Fangli Xu
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Patent number: 11172163Abstract: A video call queue method includes receiving a request for an interaction. The method includes determining an agent category. The agent category is determined based on the request. The method includes determining whether an agent is available. Determining whether the agent is available is based on the agent category. If the agent is not available, the method includes establishing a private web session. The method includes determining an estimated wait time. The method includes displaying content to the web session based on the estimated wait time. If the agent is available, the method includes initiating the interaction.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Vi Dinh Chau, Jin Li, Xu Hua Li
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Publication number: 20210345264Abstract: An information transmission method and device are provided, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that signaling overheads are relatively high in a resource scheduling process in a related technology. The method includes: sending first target information on a first target resource of a first sending device, where the first target resource is related to at least one of the following: M first modes of the first sending device, N first synchronization sources found by the first sending device, and indication information, the M first modes include at least one of the following: a second mode supported by the first sending device, and a current third mode of the first sending device, the indication information is used to indicate that the first sending device is within or outside coverage of a first target synchronization source, the first target synchronization source is at least one of the N first synchronization sources, and M and N are positive integers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Siqi Liu, Zichao Ji, Shixiao Liu, Wei Jiang
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Publication number: 20210344369Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method for reducing SGLTE coupling de-sense and a mobile terminal, the method including: filtering out an LTE network frequency band in a signal transmitted by a signal transmission end of a GSM; and filtering out a network frequency band in a signal of a signal reception end accessing the GSM other than a GSM network frequency band. Employing the present application may eliminate mutual interference between a GSM signal and an LTE signal due to the GSM network frequency band and the LTE network frequency band getting too close to each other, which greatly alleviates SGLTE mobile terminal coupling de-sense situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sheng ZHANG, Zhihao ZHENG
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Publication number: 20210345151Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information reporting method, an information receiving method, a terminal device, and a network device, where the terminal device includes multiple communication modules. The information reporting method includes: if a first preset condition is satisfied, sending first information to a network device, where the first preset condition represents that the multiple communication modules have a communication conflict, and the first information represents assistance information for assisting solving the communication conflict.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Li CHEN
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Publication number: 20210345437Abstract: The present invention provides an information indication method, an information obtaining method, a terminal, and a network node. The information indication method includes: sending indication information to the network node, where the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal detects a fast recovery failure FRF, the FRF is a failure of a fast recovery that is of a first link and that is initiated through a second link after a first link failure, the first link is a link between the terminal and a first node, and the second link is a link between the terminal and a second node.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Boubacar Kimba Dit Adamou, Xiaodong Yang, Qian Zheng
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Publication number: 20210345513Abstract: An adapter mounting structure for mounting, on a rack, a plurality of adapters to which optical connectors are connected. The adapter mounting structure includes a first panel including insertion holes through which the plurality of adapters are inserted, the first panel being configured to expose, to a front side of the rack, the plurality of adapters thus inserted and being anchored to the rack, and a second panel disposed to a rear side of the rack relative to the first panel, the second panel being anchored to the first panel and being configured to anchor each of the plurality of adapters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicants: JAPAN COMMUNICATION ACCESSORIES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Eisuke OKI, Shinsuke SATO, Takahiro NAKADA, Nghia DUONG TUAN, Takayuki YOKOCHI
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Publication number: 20210345292Abstract: A paging indication method includes reporting first information. The first information is used to instruct a network side device to initiate a trigger condition of first paging to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Wei BAO, Fei YANG, Feng ZHU
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Publication number: 20210345311Abstract: A resource allocation indication method, a base station and a terminal are provided. The method includes allocating corresponding target transmission resources to a terminal when a target service occurs, where the target transmission resources include uplink or downlink transmission resources; transmitting resource indication information to the terminal according to the target transmission resources, where the resource indication information includes first and second indication information, the first indication information is used to indicate one or more bandwidth parts of the target transmission resources, the one or more bandwidth parts are a portion or all of a total bandwidth, the second indication information is used to indicate location information of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) allocated to the terminal in PRBs corresponding to the one or more bandwidth parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Jiang, Xiaodong Shen
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Publication number: 20210345152Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a measurement method and a device. The method includes: receiving configuration information of MDT for UE 1; and performing MDT measurement based on the configuration information, and recording a first measurement result measured for the UE 1 and a second measurement result measured for UE 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Boubacar KIMBA DIT ADAMOU, Xiaodong YANG
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Publication number: 20210341692Abstract: A heat dissipation assembly and a communication module. The heat dissipation assembly includes a housing and a heat generation device disposed inside the housing, wherein the housing is provided therein with a heat insulation cavity around the periphery of the heat generation device, the heat insulation cavity is provided with a through hole, and the housing is provided therein with a heat conduction assembly disposed through the through hole and configured to conduct the heat of the heat generation device to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: CHENGDU SUPERXON COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lang LIU, Qing BAI, Jiang DENG
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Publication number: 20210344387Abstract: A method and device for allocating transmission powers, wherein the method and the device are applied to a base station. The method includes: acquiring channel data of terminals that are connected to the base station; according to the channel data of the terminals, from the terminals, virtually pre-dispatching first terminals of a first preset quantity; performing interference suppression to the first terminals, to obtain beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the first terminals; dispatching second terminals of a second preset quantity from the first terminals, and, from the beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the first terminals, screening out beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the second terminals; and according to the beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the second terminals, allocating transmission powers to the second terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTDInventors: Yuetan CHEN, Xi WANG, Wenjing WANG, Shaoyuan LI
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Publication number: 20210345097Abstract: A terminal capability negotiation method includes: in a case that a terminal device has at least two terminal identifiers, reporting capability allocation information of the terminal device to a network side device, where the capability allocation information is used to indicate an available capability of at least one terminal identifier, and the at least one terminal identifier is a terminal identifier in the at least two terminal identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Yumin WU