Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
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Patent number: 10009846Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications that may be performed (e.g., by a user equipment) for location information reporting. The method generally includes determining one or more properties of the UE and adjusting one or more parameters of location information reporting based on the determined one or more properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Seyed Ali Ahmadzadeh, Aziz Gholmieh, Kiran Patil, Venkata Sampath Kumar Mummadi, Vijay Venkataraman
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Patent number: 10009053Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a signal at the UE. The received signal includes a transmission from a serving cell and at least a first interfering transmission. The UE determines a constrained transmission rate associated with the first interfering transmission and cancels the first interfering transmission from the received signal based on the constrained transmission rate. In another aspect, a wireless communication apparatus determines a constrained transmission rate for a transmission on one or more reduced-rate resources. The wireless communication apparatus signaling the constrained transmission rate to a user equipment (UE).Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kiran Kumar Somasundaram, David Gutierrez-Estevez, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Tao Luo, Siddhartha Mallik, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 10009016Abstract: In certain aspects, a system comprises a voltage-droop mitigation circuit configured to monitor voltage droop in a supply voltage supplied to a circuit, and to perform voltage-droop mitigation for the circuit if the monitored voltage droop is equal to or greater than a droop threshold. In one aspect, the system also includes a performance monitor configured to track a number of clock cycles over which the voltage-droop mitigation circuit performs the voltage-droop mitigation within a time duration, and to adjust the droop threshold based on the number of clock cycles. In another aspect, the system also includes a performance monitor configured to track a number of times that the voltage-droop mitigation circuit performs the voltage-droop mitigation within a time duration, and to adjust the droop threshold based on the number of times that the voltage-droop mitigation circuit performs the voltage-droop mitigation within the time duration.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lam Ho, Keith Alan Bowman, Navid Toosizadeh, Shih-Hsin Jason Hu, Mohammad Reza Kakoee, Saravana Krishnan Kannan
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Patent number: 10005555Abstract: An aerial imaging system and method of aerially capturing an image including a first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a second UAV. The first UAV includes a camera and may be configured to receive input from an operator. The second UAV may be configured to dock with and deploy from the first UAV. The second UAV includes a light configured to provide remote illumination for the camera. The light on the second UAV may be activated to illuminate a target of photography by the camera while the second UAV is flown separate from the first UAV.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lalan Jee Mishra, Jose G. Corleto Mena
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Patent number: 10008316Abstract: Some novel features pertain to a package substrate that includes a core layer, a first via, a first dielectric layer, and a first inductor. The core layer includes a first surface and a second surface. The first via is located in the core layer. The first dielectric layer is coupled to the first surface of the core layer. The first inductor is located in the first dielectric layer. The first inductor is coupled to the first via in the core layer. The first inductor is configured to generate a magnetic field that laterally traverses the package substrate. In some implementations, the package substrate further includes a first pad coupled to the first inductor, wherein the first pad is configured to couple to a solder ball. In some implementations, the package substrate includes a second via located in the core layer, and a second inductor located in the first dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Siamak Fazelpour, Charles David Paynter, Ryan David Lane
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Patent number: 10007292Abstract: Example implementations and techniques are described in which a processor uses a dynamic adjustment algorithm, including algorithms based on performance and energy models, to readjust frequency settings for a graphics processing unit (GPU), and independently for a system memory or for a system memory bus, to an optimal level for meeting sustained performance requirements with the low level of power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lucille Garwood Sylvester, Navid Farazmand, Brian Salsbery, Jeremy Gebben
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Patent number: 10009323Abstract: Techniques for detecting and dealing with a lost electronics device are disclosed. In one design, the device may autonomously determine whether it is lost. The device may destroy at least one component to render it inoperable and may perform other actions in response to determining that it is lost. In another design, the device may determine available battery power of the device upon determining that it is lost, select at least one action in a list of possible actions based on the available battery power, and perform the selected action(s). In yet another design, upon determining that it is lost, the device may prevent access to information on the device based on a secondary security key, which is not used for encrypting information during normal operation. In yet another design, the device may notify at least one contact and may perform at least one additional action upon determining that it is lost.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lukai Cai, Jose R Menendez, Roy Benjamin Silverstein, Rajkrishnan Parameswaran
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Patent number: 10009912Abstract: The disclosure relates in some aspects to a scheduling and token bucket scheme for co-existence of different radio access technologies on a communication resource. In some aspects, the scheme may avoid traffic collisions on the resource and promotes access fairness on the resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Abraham, Naga Bhushan, Jing Jiang, Tingfang Ji, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
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Patent number: 10009100Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for transmitting an identifier using visible light communication (VLC) and for generating a plurality of identifiers for transmission using VLC. Input identifying an illumination factor associated with a light source is received. A first set of modulation parameters is modified for transmitting the identifier using VLC. The first set of modulation parameters is modified based on the illumination factor. A signal, in which the identifier is encoded, is applied to the light source. The signal is applied according to the first set of modulation parameters. Another method includes identifying a number of light transmitting devices, generating a plurality of identifiers based on the identified number of light transmitting devices, storing the generated identifiers, determining a plurality of cyclic shifts for each identifier in the plurality of identifiers, and removing identifiers from the plurality of identifiers that match the identified cyclic shifts.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aleksandar Jovicic, Mahadevi Pillai Perumal
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Patent number: 10009093Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to handoff (e.g., idle mode handoff or other types of handoff) for a user terminal. In some aspects, a user terminal (UT) may request idle mode handoff information from a ground network (GN). Idle mode handoff information may include, for example, start times for a set of satellites, whereby each particular start time indicates when the UT may handoff to the corresponding satellite. The UT may send the request for idle mode handoff information to the GN when the UT has a defined number of valid entries (e.g., one unexpired entry) remaining in an idle mode handoff table. In some aspects, the idle UT may send the request for idle mode handoff information to the GN based on a time associated with a particular entry in an idle mode handoff table or based on a time of validity of an idle mode handoff table.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Punyaslok Purkayastha, Fatih Ulupinar, Peter Barany, Gene Wesley Marsh
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Patent number: 10006986Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, computer-/processor-readable media, and other implementations, including a method, at a processor-based mobile device, that includes determining a first set of candidate positions of the mobile device corresponding to a first time instance based, at least in part, on position data including a first set of identifiers decoded from signals including respective first one or more light-based communications received by the mobile device from a first one or more light devices, with the mobile device being located at a first location at the first time instance. The method further includes selecting at least one candidate position from the first set of candidate positions, in response to a determination that the first set of candidate positions includes more than one candidate position, in order to resolve positional ambiguity, based, at least partly, on further position data from further signals from one or more devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aleksandar Jovicic, Hua Wang, Elizabeth Gene
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Patent number: 10008987Abstract: A low noise amplifier (LNA) reduces matching and switch noise. The LNA includes a main radio frequency signal path, an auxiliary radio frequency signal path and a phase shifter. The main path includes a first transistor and an inductor. The inductor is positioned between an input port of the LNA and the first transistor. The first transistor receives an input radio frequency signal via the inductor and provides a first amplified signal based on the input radio frequency signal. The auxiliary radio frequency signal path provides a second amplified signal for a noise cancellation mode based on the input radio frequency signal. The phase shifter applies a phase shift to an output signal of the LNA based on the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Serkan Sayilir, Chuan Wang, Li-chung Chang, Kevin Hsi Huai Wang
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Patent number: 10007587Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing available storage space within a storage system (e.g., as “supplemental” storage) and/or implement less physical storage space in the storage system (e.g., reduced storage overhead) through operation of fragment pre-storage techniques are disclosed. Such fragment pre-storage utilization of the aforementioned available storage space may provide operation emulating larger storage overhead than is actually provided in the storage system, facilitate improved repair rates, and/or facilitate reduced repair bandwidth in the storage system according to embodiments. A fragment pre-storage repair policy may implement source object repair whereby additional fragments for the source object are pre-generated and pre-stored in the storage system as transient fragments, whereby the transient fragments are moved to corresponding storage nodes when those storage nodes become physically present in the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Thomas Joseph Richardson, Michael George Luby
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Patent number: 10008537Abstract: A complementary bit cell includes a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device having a free layer coupled to a first access transistor and having a pinned layer coupled to a bit line. The complementary bit cell also includes a second MTJ device having a free layer coupled to the same bit line and having a pinned layer coupled to a second access transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xia Li, Xiaochun Zhu, Yu Lu
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Patent number: 10009160Abstract: A system and method for low latency acknowledgements includes a communication unit that includes a processor, a transmitter coupled to the processor, and a receiver coupled to the processor. The communication unit is configured to transmit a message to another communication unit, receive a first group of one or more repetitions of an acknowledgement signal from the another communication unit, and decode the acknowledgement signal prior to fully receiving a last repetition of a second group of one or more repetitions of the acknowledgement signal. The acknowledgement signal has a partially decodable structure. In some embodiments, each of the are repetitions of a same time domain waveform received during one symbol period. In some embodiments, a frequency domain characteristic of the time domain waveform consists of one non-zero tone for every K tones, K being equal to a sum of a number of repetition in the first and second groups.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, John Edward Smee
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Patent number: 10009621Abstract: In one example, the disclosure is directed to techniques that include, for each prediction unit (PU) of a respective coding unit (CU) of a slice of a picture of the video data, determining at least one disparity value based at least in part on at least one depth value of at least one reconstructed depth sample of at least one neighboring sample. The techniques further include determining at least one disparity vector based at least in part on the at least one disparity value, wherein the at least one disparity vector is for the respective CU for each PU. The techniques further include reconstructing, based at least in part on the at least one disparity vector, a coding block for the respective CU for each PU.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Li Zhang, Ying Chen, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 10007771Abstract: A method for operating a mobile device includes generating a user interface at a processor. The user interface includes one or more virtual objects. The method also includes changing a configuration of the one or more virtual objects. The method further includes monitoring a mannerism of a user of the mobile device. The mannerism is affected by a change in configuration of the one or more virtual objects. The method also includes performing a function based on the mannerism.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seyfullah Halit Oguz, Khaled Helmi El-Maleh, Saurabh Sensharma, Arvind Kulathu Ramachandran
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Patent number: 10004432Abstract: An apparatus, such as a pixel sensor for an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first metallization layer coupled to a piezoelectric layer, wherein a first voltage is formed at the first metallization layer in response to an ultrasonic wave reflecting off an item-to-be-imaged (e.g., a user's fingerprint) and propagating through the piezoelectric layer, and wherein the first metallization layer is situated above a substrate; a second metallization layer situated between the first metallization layer and the substrate; and a device configured to apply a second voltage to the second metallization layer to reduce a parasitic capacitance between the first metallization layer and the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lennart Karl-Axel Mathe, Sameer Wadhwa, Lingli Xia
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Patent number: 10009923Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a user terminal (UT) to transmit data to a network controller via a satellite in a satellite system. The UT may begin transmitting, during a time period, a first portion of the data using contention-based resources of the satellite system prior to receiving a grant of scheduled return link resources of the satellite system. The UT may also transmit, on the contention-based resources, a buffer status report (BSR) during the time period. The UT may terminate data transmissions on the contention-based resources after an expiration of the time period or upon receiving the grant of scheduled return link resources. After receiving the grant, the UT may transmit a second portion of the data on the scheduled return link resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Qiang Wu, Fatih Ulupinar
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Patent number: 10009445Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communicating data via the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are provided. The apparatus receives from a sender a plurality of data segments according to a sequential order, infers at least one missing data segment in the sequential order, and acknowledges to the sender receipt of a highest byte sequence number of a received data segment plus one based on the inference of the at least one missing data segment. The apparatus also adjusts a receive window based on at least one of: the inference of the at least one missing data segment, or a round-trip-time of a TCP connection, wherein the receive window indicates a buffer capacity for receiving data segments. The apparatus further advertises the adjusted receive window to the sender.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Kevin Roland Fall