Patents Assigned to AND Communications
  • Patent number: 11070992
    Abstract: Wireless consumer premises equipment (CPE) devices are provisioned with their wireless functionality disabled. Selected wireless CPE devices have their wireless functionality turned on, and testing of the selected wireless devices, including testing of their wireless functionality, is performed. After testing has been completed, the selected wireless devices are placed in a predetermined default operational profile suitable for subsequent end consumer deployment. A wireless interference and wireless channel saturation minimization action is performed in relation to the selected wireless devices so that their wireless functionality does not affect subsequent testing of the wireless functionality of other wireless CPE devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Promptlink Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Foad Towfiq, Adib Towfiq, Alexander Podarevsky, Antonin Shtikhlaytner
  • Patent number: 11071024
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and device for obtaining cell information. The method incudes: when receiving measurement configuration information, according to target information, determining a target timing duration of a timer; wherein the measurement configuration information is configured to instruct the user equipment to obtain identifier information of a target cell, the target information includes at least one of frequency related information of the target cell, synchronization status of the target cell and a serving cell, capability information of the user equipment, and operation state related information of the user equipment; when the identifier information is obtained within the target timing duration, reporting the identifier information to a network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Yang
  • Patent number: 11069371
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for detecting and correlating percussive sounds with previously identified spectral signatures of a plurality of events so as to notify a user of an occurrence of a particular event. The system may include a sensor component which includes a piezoelectric transducer at a periphery of the sensor component for coupling with a surface and converting percussive sounds from the surface into an electrical signal. The sensor component may also include a local processor configured to produce a data signal based on the electrical signal, and a communication device for sending the data signal to a remote processor. The system may also include a remote processor configured to receive the data signal and compare the data signal to at least one reference signal, and send a notification to a user based at least in part on the data signal correlating to at least one reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Margoles, Sean Fendt, Bryan Loughry, Brett Jurgens
  • Patent number: 11070385
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for taking a break after seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method for taking a break after a transition between network conferences includes operations of attending a first network conference using a first conference state and a conferencing application, and displaying Up-Next conference status about a second network conference. The method also includes operations of receiving a request to enter a break mode after joining the second network conference, joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application, and transmitting a break mode icon to participants in the second network conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick John Jensen
  • Patent number: 11070595
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to communications methods and apparatus for efficiently distributing traffic to processing entities. An exemplary method includes the steps of: receiving, at a first Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) load balancer (SLB), a first SIP INVITE message; selecting, at the first SLB, which Session Border Controller (SBC) in a first cluster of SBCs to send the first SIP invite message based on a message allocation weight determined based on message loss information corresponding to different SBCs in the first cluster of SBCs, the selecting including allocating a portion of incoming received SIP INVITE messages to an individual SBC based on a message loss rate corresponding to the individual SBC and the message allocation rate, said selecting including selecting a first SBC from the first cluster of SBCs to send said first SIP INVITE message, and sending the first SIP INVITE message to the first SBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Tolga Asveren, Nagesh Kumar Bollapolli, Aby Kuriakose
  • Patent number: 11070896
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for a configurable optical peering fabric to dynamically create a connection between participant sites without any physical site limitations or necessity of specialized client and network provider equipment being located within such a facility. Client sites to a network may connect to a configurable switching element to be interconnected to other client sites in response to a request to connect the first client site with a second site, also connected to network, via the switching element. A request may trigger verification of the requested and, upon validation, transmission of an instruction to the switching element to enable the cross connect within the switching element. The first site and the second site may thus be interconnected via the switching element in response to the request, without the need to co-locate equipment or to manually install a jumper between client equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Laurel Clark, Clyde David Cooper, III, Andrew Dugan
  • Patent number: 11070672
    Abstract: A method of adapting customer care handling automated workflows. The method comprises creating records of calls by a subscriber to a customer care handling system, analyzing the records of calls by a customer care handling adaptation application, comparing by the application a frequency of calls to customer care and a frequency of account credits granted to the subscriber to a correlation threshold, where the correlation threshold is randomly varied within predefined correlation values, tagging the wireless communication service account of the subscriber by the application as manipulative of customer care, receiving a call from the subscriber to the customer care handling system, determining by the customer care handling system that the subscriber is tagged as manipulative of customer care, and adapting the handling automated workflow for the subscriber by the customer care handling system based on the determination that the subscriber is tagged as manipulative of customer care.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Michael A. Gailloux, Kenneth W. Samson
  • Patent number: 11069222
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Patent number: 11070884
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments allow media players and other electronic devices that operate under a first protocol to control the media capture devices that operate with a second protocol which may not be configurable to communicate with the first protocol. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a network device may store and/or render content within a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network and/or assist in content delivery for a DLNA device on a network. In another embodiment of the disclosure, a media capture device uses the Internet Protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James S. Poder, Michael J. Cook
  • Patent number: 11070396
    Abstract: A Virtual Cloud Exchange (VCX) and method for establishing connectivity between a host computer in a customer network and a cloud service provider, includes a customer facing software defined network (SDN) switch; a cloud computing service facing SDN switch; and a processor executing instructions to generate a customer facing network routing virtual network function (VNF) and a cloud facing network routing VNF; and configure a first open virtual switch (vSwitch) and a second open vSwitch. The customer facing SDN switch generates a first overlay tunnel between the customer facing SDN switch and the first open vSwitch and the cloud facing SDN switch generates a second overlay tunnel between the cloud facing SDN switch and the second open vSwitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Tata Communications Transformation Services (US) Inc.
    Inventors: Vineet Anshuman, Ved Prakash Singh, Ebrahim Attarwala, Amit Borkar
  • Patent number: 11070897
    Abstract: An optical communication system comprises an optical communication device and an optical power supply configured to generate a sequence of optical frame templates directed to the optical communication device. The optical communication device may use the received optical frame templates as a light source for generating data-loaded optical frames and/or may extract from the optical frame templates control information encoded therein using one or more headers thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Nubis Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Johannes Winzer
  • Patent number: 11067411
    Abstract: A method to determine a traffic flow at a point-of-interest (POI). The method comprises presenting a user interface on a display that shows segments overlaid on a map, receiving input that defines a perimeter of a POI, determining route segments contained within the perimeter of the POI, creating a POI object that comprises the identities of the route segments contained within the perimeter of the POI, whereby a geolocation of the POI is defined, for each of a plurality of mobile communication devices, determining route segments traversed by the mobile communication device based on geolocations of the device, and determining a number of different mobile communication devices that intersect with the POI based on comparing the route segments traversed by the mobile communication devices to the route segments associated to the POI object, whereby a traffic flow at the geolocation of the POI is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Robert H. Burcham, Matthew Habiger, Adam C. Pickett
  • Patent number: 11065554
    Abstract: A toy (1000) includes a toy body (100) and an accessory (200). The toy body (100) includes an accessory locking member (4) which cooperates with or is separated from the accessory (200) to position or eject the accessory (200). The accessory (200) is provided with a first clamping part (204) configured to clamp a toy disc (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: ALPHA GROUP CO., LTD., GUANGDONG AULDEY ANIMATION & TOY CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU ALPHA CULTURE COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dongqing Cai
  • Patent number: 11071084
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to receive a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device. The terminal device detects one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment and estimates the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry. Furthermore the terminal device receives from the infrastructure equipment an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11067807
    Abstract: Smart glasses taking a proportion of power it requires from ambient light includes a plurality of lenses, a frame structure connected to the plurality of lenses, a display module disposed in at least one of the plurality of lenses, a battery disposed in the frame structure, and a processor electrically connected to the display module and the battery. The display module includes display units arranged in a matrix. Each display unit comprises at least one micro LED unit, and at least one first optical photoelectric conversion unit for converting solar energy into electrical power. The battery is electrically connected to the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kwang-Pi Lee, Chi-An Chen
  • Patent number: 11071086
    Abstract: Wireless communications for network access configuration are described. A base station may configure a monitoring gap for a wireless device, based on information received from the wireless device. The wireless device may use the monitoring gap to communicate with another base station associated with another wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Jinsook Ryu, Hua Zhou, Ali Cirik, Hyoungsuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11070980
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a secondary communication device based on authentication of a primary mobile communication device is disclosed. Trust is established with the primary mobile communication device by a device authentication server (DAS). The DAS receives an authorization code request from a secondary application operating on the secondary communication device, and transmits an authorization code to the secondary communication device. The DAS receives the authorization code from a primary application operating on the primary mobile communication device. The DAS authorizes the secondary application based on the trust with the primary mobile communication device and the authorization code from the primary application. The DAS transmits a secondary token to the secondary application at the secondary communication device to allow initialization of a communication session from the secondary application on behalf of the primary mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Ricky A. Hohler, Robin D. Katzer, Deepthi Kota, Brian D. Mauer
  • Patent number: 11071164
    Abstract: Bandwidth parts (BWPs) and other resources for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may use a BWP control procedure and/or a BWP timer management procedure for activating, deactivating, and/or switching BWPs, for example, using multiple active BWPs. A base station may send information comprising one or more fields indicating an action associated with a BWP, for example, if multiple active BWPs are supported. A wireless device may control a first BWP inactivity timer associated with a first active BWP, for example, based on activating, deactivating, and/or switching a second BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Dinan, Ali Cirik, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11070890
    Abstract: A user interface by which network operators, programmers, broadcasters and advertisers can deploy and make accessible libraries of available content and allow viewers of iTV services to customize the presentation and content of the information being presented thereto includes one or more screens each having one or more navigable and selectable elements through which the viewers are permitted to customize presentation and content of iTV application environments other than those associated with the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
    Inventors: John Carney, David de Andrade, Viva Chu, Samuel Moreau
  • Patent number: 11070460
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems for providing multiple egress routes from a telecommunications network for a client of the network. In general, the system provides for a client of the network to receive intended packets of information through multiple connections to the network such that load balancing and failover services for traffic to the customer are provided. The process and system allows for telecommunications network to utilize a common next-hop value of announced border gateway protocol (BGP) routes to advertise multiple routes to reach a destination customer network or address. By utilizing a common next-hop value in the announced BGP information, the devices of the network may load balance communication packets to the destination customer or address among the multiple egress locations from the network, as well as providing fast failover to alternate routes when a failure at the network or customer occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Francis Ferguson, Eric Osborne, Clyde David Cooper, III, Brent W. Smith