Patents Examined by Adolf Dsouza
  • Patent number: 11659419
    Abstract: A method for identifying an interfering aerial vehicle user equipment within a communications system, the method including determining for the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment a first signal measurement value is less than a first threshold value; and determining for the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment a second signal measurement value related to the radio interface between the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment and a serving cell access point is greater than a second threshold value, and the first signal measurement value is determined based on a comparison between the second signal measurement value and further signal measurement values related to the radio interface between the interfering aerial vehicle user equipment and at least one further cell access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Yan Zhao, Istvan Z. Kovacs, Jeroen Wigard
  • Patent number: 11647360
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus specifies a vector representation which represents features of respective temporal usage patterns of two or more areas. The information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor acquires area-specific usage pattern data which indicates which of two or more patterns the temporal usage pattern of each area is. The processor specifies, on the basis of the area-specific usage pattern data, a vector representation which represents the feature of the temporal usage pattern of each area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, Blogwatcher Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawaguchi, Kazuyuki Shoji, Takuro Yonezawa, Masato Sakata
  • Patent number: 11638233
    Abstract: This document describes systems and techniques to generate refined location estimates using ultra-wideband (UWB) communication links. Mobile devices, such as smartphones, include location sensors to estimate their location. The accuracy of location sensors is generally about 3 meters (or about 10 feet). More accurate location data would allow mobile devices to provide new and improved functionality. The described systems and techniques determine the distance between nearby mobile devices using UWB communication links. A mobile device can then use the distance between the mobile devices to determine their relative locations. By comparing the relative locations of the mobile devices with their location estimates, the mobile device can generate a refined location estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Shahram Izadi
  • Patent number: 11638120
    Abstract: There is described a system for tracking beacon tags comprising a communication component and a processor. The communication component receives a beacon from a beacon tag and transmit an acknowledgment of the beacon. The processor identifies a tag characteristic associated with the beacon tag and generates a tag instruction based on the tag characteristic. The tag instruction includes a beaconing rate for the beacon tag, and the acknowledgment includes the tag instruction. There is also described a beacon tag for operating with a tracking system comprising a communication component and a processor. The communication component transmits a first beacon, receive an acknowledgment associated with the beacon, and transmit a second beacon from the beacon tag based on an adjusted beaconing rate. The processor identifies a tag instruction of the acknowledgment and adjusts the beaconing rate of the beacon tag based on the tag instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Building Robotics, Inc.
    Inventor: Tanuj Mohan
  • Patent number: 11622235
    Abstract: An example security system includes a plurality of access control devices that each control access to a respective secured area. A mobile device includes a processor, an accelerometer, a wireless transceiver, and memory storing a credential. The processor is configured to receive an indication from the accelerometer, detect a user gesture based on the indication from the accelerometer indicating a predefined movement of the mobile device, determine a pathway based on the gesture that includes multiple ones of the secured areas, and utilize the wireless transceiver to automatically transmit the credential to the respective access control devices associated with each secured area of the pathway. An example method for a security system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Greg Berry
  • Patent number: 11612543
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a portable insulated medicament container that includes a housing defining a cavity for receiving medicament for maintaining temperature control of the medicament. The housing has an opening for accessing the cavity, and the housing further includes one or more cooling elements for placement in the cavity. The invention also pertains to a method for using a portable insulated medicament container to store a medicament at a temperature range to avoid damage to the medicament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOBLE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Baker, Joseph Reynolds, Matthew Palyo, Shishuang Hou
  • Patent number: 11606154
    Abstract: A wideband spectrum analyzer includes at least one signal input, and at least one signal channel with a first filter module and a second filter module. The first filter module and the second filter module are connected with the at least one signal input downstream of the at least one signal input in a series connection. The first filter module includes first switches, and several different highpass filters being arranged in a parallel connection. The first switches are configured to selectively connect one of the highpass filters with an input of the first filter module and an output of the first filter module. The second filter module includes second switches, and several different lowpass filters being arranged in a parallel connection. The second switches are configured to selectively connect one of the lowpass filters with an input of the second filter module and an output of the second filter module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Alexander Roth
  • Patent number: 11601909
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to data transmission and accuracy for positioning User Equipment (UE) in a network are described. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes selecting, by a mobile device, one or more cells in a wireless network for facilitating a positioning of the mobile device in the wireless network. The method also includes transmitting, from the mobile device to a network node, a message to request assistance data corresponding to the one or more selected cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xu Liu, Bo Dai, Xiubin Sha, Ting Lu
  • Patent number: 11601780
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing network status information in a network, such as a satellite mesh network. A network node receives a network status update, indicative of a change in network conditions, from another node, e.g. via flooding. Based on a direction of travel of the update, content of at least one counter field of the network status update is adjusted. The update is then propagated, or not, based on the counter fields. A counter field may be increased in response to the update travelling in one direction and decreased in response to the update travelling in an opposite direction. Different counter fields may be adjusted in response to the update travelling in different, e.g. orthogonal, directions. The direction can be determined based on which of plural directional communication interfaces received the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mehdi Arashmid Akhavain Mohammadi, Hassan Halabian
  • Patent number: 11601168
    Abstract: A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second preceded signal; a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the phase-changed second precoded signal; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the phase-changed and pilot-signal-inserted second precoded signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Patent number: 11594137
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing mobility insight data related to shared vehicles for a point of interest (POI). The approach involves retrieving shared vehicle data for the POI. The shared vehicle data indicates one or more shared vehicle events that have occurred, that are occurring at a given time, or a combination thereof within a threshold proximity of the POI. The approach also involves processing the shared vehicle data to determine mobility insight data. The mobility insight data includes a shared vehicle usage pattern, a shared vehicle availability pattern, or a combination thereof under one or more contexts for travel to or from the POI. The approach further involves presenting the mobility insight data in a location-based user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Jens Unger
  • Patent number: 11595782
    Abstract: A method of assuring integrity of range measurements and position solutions comprises obtaining range measurement statistics between network nodes, performing a snapshot integrity test for the range measurement statistics, and performing a sequential integrity test using the range measurement statistics. The snapshot integrity test comprises using Gram matrices with a current configuration of the nodes; performing a singular value consistency check using the Gram matrices against a user selected threshold; and detecting and excluding range measurement statistics with instantaneous errors that cause the singular value to exceed the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Vibhor L Bageshwar, Michael Ray Elgersma, Ross Merritt
  • Patent number: 11595777
    Abstract: A system for determining the presence of an individual at a particular spot within a location preferably based on the strength of signals received from beacons assigned to the particular spot by a software application (“App”) running on an electronic device of the individual. In one embodiment, certain presence calculations are performed by the App. In another embodiment, the App forwards information regarding the received beacon signals to an electronic identification and location tracking system and the presence calculations are performed by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES OF NEVADA, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Howard Kusens, Michael Kusens
  • Patent number: 11591847
    Abstract: A position sensing system and method for detecting the displacement of a door from a reference position, such as, for example, from a closed position. The system includes a magnetometer that may be operably connected to the door, and which measures positional location relative to a reference magnetic field, such as, for example, a magnetic field provided by a magnet of a lock device. The system may also include an accelerometer that detects acceleration of the door, and thereby provides an indication of when location is to be measured by the magnetometer. Measurement information from the magnetometer is used to derive a position indicator that is compared to a reference indicator, the reference indicator being associated with the reference position. Differences between the position and reference indicators may provide an indication that the door has been moved from the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan C. Kincaid, Gabriel D. Focke, Brian A. Telljohann, Raymond F. Rettig, Matthew Dexter, Ryne Rayburn
  • Patent number: 11595938
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives assistance data for positioning that includes relative position information for anchor points, such as base stations and/or sidelink UEs. The relative position information may include, for example, distances or angles between anchor points. The UE performs positioning measurements for reference signals received from the anchor points. The UE performs outlier rejection of the positioning measurements using the relative position information. Positioning measurements selected by the UE using the relative position information are provided to a location server. The location server may perform UE-assisted positioning using the selected position measurements and the actual locations of the anchor points. Accordingly, the outlier rejection of the position measurements may be off loaded from the location server to the UE while maintaining confidentiality of the actual locations of the anchor points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11583688
    Abstract: A system for providing remote assistance to a caregiver during a medical event includes a computer tablet with a transmitter/receiver to communicably couple the tablet with a remote computing system associated with central caregivers, physiological sensors for collecting patient information, and a defibrillator configured to couple to the sensors and including a transmitter/receiver to communicably couple the defibrillator and tablet, and a processor to receive the patient information from the sensors, provide the patient information for display, and communicate the patient information to the tablet, the tablet being configured to generate a user alert for communications with the remote system based on a signal indicating that resuscitative treatment of the victim is being administered, the signal including the patient information received from the sensors, and the user alert including a request for a confirmation to initiate communications with the remote system, and, in response, establish communications wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Ziad F Elghazzawi
  • Patent number: 11576587
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a speaker capable of outputting a sound wave, a sensor capable of acquiring an optical signal related to blood flow at a measured part of a user, and a controller configured to measure blood flow information of the measured part based on the optical signal. The controller estimates a sleep state of the user based on the blood flow information and controls, based on the sleep state, a sound wave outputted from the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11570575
    Abstract: A parking system may include a number of parking locations, where the availability of each parking location may be tracked based on detection of whether a vehicle is in the parking location. Accordingly, a parking system may organize parking locations based on availability and unavailability. In some cases, mobile device sensors may be used to determine whether a mobile device has left the vehicle in the parking location (e.g., and thus the parking location is still unavailable) or whether the mobile device has left the parking location in the vehicle (e.g., and thus the parking location is now available). In some cases, the parking system may organize available and unavailable parking locations, facilitate user listing of parking locations, track of available and unavailable parking locations, and track different characteristics of different parking locations (e.g., such as location, size, cost, availability, etc.), among other examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Jason Ratzlaff
  • Patent number: 11569931
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for enhancing data rates in a small-cell wireless communication network. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus utilize “quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum in conjunction with 3GPP wireless communication network (e.g. 4G LTE or 5GNR) for the delivery of services to a number of enhanced fixed wireless apparatus (CPEe/FWAe) at user or subscriber premises. The various CPEe/FWAe report Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) data to their respective serving base stations, and each base station maps the CQI value to a prescribed configuration (e.g., to the Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)) adaptively for the transmission of the data to the CPEe/FWAe. In one implementation, the base stations update the CQI to MCS values adaptively according to ACK/NACK requests received from the CPEe/FWAe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Volkan Sevindik, Haider Syed
  • Patent number: 11564062
    Abstract: The present application includes a search route processor that calculates a plurality of search routes between locations of a plurality of searchers belonging to a predetermined area and a search target based on position information of the search target acquired from a position information terminal held by the search target, and a plurality of portable terminals that is held by the plurality of searchers and displays the plurality of search routes calculated by the search route processor and personal information that identifies the search target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Kikuhiro Yorozuya