Patents Examined by Ahmad F. Matar
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Patent number: 12232004Abstract: Embodiments include a method, in an application function, AF, for exchanging UE communication pattern information with a core network, CN. The method comprises provisioning, to a network exposure function, NEF, in the CN, communication information related to one or more user equipment, UEs, the communication information including an identifier of an application associated with the AF and an indication of one or more first parameters describing a first UE communication pattern associated with the application. The method further comprises sending, to the NEF, a subscription request, wherein the subscription request includes the identifier of the application. Further still, the method comprises receiving, from the NEF, a report indicative of an analysis of traffic of the application based at least on the one or more first parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña, Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez
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Patent number: 12231989Abstract: Systems, methods, and software can provide high-accuracy position estimation for mobile user equipment (UE) configured for use within a service area covered by a plurality of radio units, e.g., O-RUs, with known position including coordinates. A channel estimate can be derived for a channel between a given UE and each of a plurality of radio units based on a sounding reference signal (SRS) received from the UE and used to select a subset of the radio units. The shortest delay can be calculated for the given UE to each O-RU in the subset, forming a set of uplink-time-difference-of-arrival (UL-TDOA) measurements; position of the given UE in the service area can be estimated based on the UL-TDOA measurements. The O-RU synchronization error can be estimated for each O-RU in the subset using estimated positions of the given UE and corresponding UL-TDOA measurements.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: ASOCS Ltd.Inventor: Vitaly Lutsky
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Patent number: 12231844Abstract: A microphone system of the invention is applicable to an electronic device comprising an adjustable mechanism that causes a change in geometry of a microphone array. The microphone system comprises the microphone array, a sensor and a beamformer. The microphone array comprises multiple microphones that detect sound and generate multiple audio signals. The sensor detects a mechanism variation of the electronic device to generate a sensing output. The beamformer is configured to perform a set of operations comprising: performing a spatial filtering operation over the multiple audio signals using a trained model based on the sensing output, one or more first sound sources in one or more desired directions and one or more second sound sources in one or more undesired directions to generate a beamformed output signal originated from the one or more first sound sources.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: BRITISH CAYMAN ISLANDS INTELLIGO TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Hua-Jun Hong, Chih-Sheng Chen, Hsueh-Ying Lai, Yu-Pao Tsai, Tsung-Liang Chen
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Patent number: 12225146Abstract: A portable electronic device may include a touch-sensitive display, a housing at least partially enclosing the touch-sensitive display, the housing defining an audio port along a side of the housing, the audio port defining a partially enclosed volume, and an acoustic module positioned within the housing and including an audio enclosure defining a first passage and a second passage, a microphone operably coupled to the partially enclosed volume of the audio port by the first passage, a pressure sensor operably coupled to the partially enclosed volume of the audio port by the second passage, and an acoustic mesh positioned between an end of the second passage and the audio port.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jason M. Gillier, Jiachen Xu, Yi Xu, Griffin L. Schmitt, Nicholas Merz, Daniel Jarvis, Marwan Rammah
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Patent number: 12219578Abstract: A PDCCH monitoring method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method includes: monitoring PDCCH according to PDCCH blind detection capability information of N scheduling cells which are in M cells configured for UE by a network device and further including X scheduled cells; PDCCH blind detection capability information is related to a cell parameter of M cells and indicates maximum processing capability of UE in performing PDCCH blind detection in each or N scheduling cells per unit time; M and N are positive integers greater than or equal to 1, X is a positive integer greater than or equal to 0, M=N+X.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Zichao Ji
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Patent number: 12207033Abstract: A headphone comprising: two headphone earcups each comprising: an earcup housing defining an active chamber that acoustically couples a sound output side of a speaker to an ear of a user, and an inactive chamber that surrounds the active chamber; and a passive valve assembly configured to open in response to a positive pressure and a negative pressure within the active chamber to fluidly couple the active chamber to the inactive chamber and equalize a pressure between the active chamber and the inactive chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jacob A. Pfitsch, Onur I. Ilkorur, Esge B. Andersen, Miikka O. Tikander
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Patent number: 12200021Abstract: Various embodiments describe methods, systems, and devices for establishing a packet cable multi-media (PCMM) session. Exemplary implementations may receiving, a call initiation request message; determine whether a negative PCMM response associated with the call initiation request message is received; determine whether to ignore the negative PCMM response based on a call preferences parameter associated with the first UE in response to determining that the negative PCMM response is received; and establish a call associated with the call initiation request message in response to determining to ignore the negative PCMM response based on the call preferences parameter associated with the first UE.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventor: Ashutosh K. Sinha
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Patent number: 12200570Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a calculation unit that calculates a terminal coordinate system magnetic vector on the basis of a spatial coordinate system magnetic vector and a posture of a communication terminal; and a notification unit that notifies the communication terminal of the terminal coordinate system magnetic vector by non-contact communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Suzuki
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Patent number: 12192699Abstract: The present disclosure discloses electronic terminal including housing, sound producing device and switching structure, and first sound cavity channel and second sound cavity channel formed in the housing. The sound producing device defines sound producing cavity jointly with housing. The electronic terminal further includes mounting groove formed in housing. The switching structure includes baffle slidably arranged in mounting groove and driving portion driving baffle to slide in mounting groove. The driving portion drives baffle to slide into first sound cavity channel or the second sound cavity channel, to close first sound cavity channel or the second sound cavity channel. The baffle can be driven to slide in mounting groove to selectively close first sound cavity channel or second sound cavity channel, to prevent the problem that the terminal, when using one of the first sound cavity channel and the second sound cavity channel, is affected by the other.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mushu Xiao, Shuwen Wu
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Patent number: 12192949Abstract: There is disclosed devices and methods of operating a first device to determine a distance, between it and a further device, the methods comprising: transmitting a first broadcast frame comprising an identifier and a transmission timestamp; receiving a further broadcast frame, the further broadcast frame comprising an identifier of the further device, and a transmission timestamp of the further device, and at least one data pair comprising a transmitting device identifier and a reception timestamp, wherein the reception timestamp is indicative of the arrival time, at the further device, of a prior broadcast frame broadcast from the transmitting device; determining a reception timestamp of the further broadcast frame; comparing each transmitting device identifier with the identifier of the first device; and determining the distance between the first device and the further device.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Sunil Dilipkumar Jogi, Giten Kulkarni
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Patent number: 12192406Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method of processing messages received in an asynchronous communication system. In some embodiments, the method includes analyzing interactions on a digital communication channel, determining that the interactions have paused for an amount of time, analyzing content of the interactions to determine an estimate of the amount of time, updating a state of the agent to release the agent for the estimated amount of time, and setting a timer that will automatically change the state of the agent back to an occupied state for the interactions at a future time that aligns with an expiration of the timer.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.Inventors: George Erhart, Reinhard Klemm, Wen-Hua Ju, Michael Sisselman, Atsushi Hirano
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Patent number: 12192706Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, the present invention is directed to a contact hearing system including: a transmit circuit including a transmit coil positioned in an ear tip, THE transmit circuit having a first bandpass characteristic, wherein the transmit circuit is tuned such that a center of the first bandpass characteristic is set at a first frequency; and a receive circuit including a receive coil positioned on a contact hearing device, the receive circuit having a second bandpass characteristic, wherein the receive circuit is tuned such that a center of the second bandpass characteristic differs from the center of the first bandpass characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Earlens CorporationInventors: Stuart W. Wenzel, Lawrence W. Arne
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Patent number: 12185042Abstract: A dual-axis swivel speaker mount assembly includes a base section for attachment to a supporting object, a central section, a speaker section for direct/indirect attachment to a speaker, a first pivot assembly pivotably connecting the base section and the central section, a second pivot assembly pivotably connecting the central section to the speaker section, and two to four securing assemblies for selectively securing the pivot assemblies against rotation.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MUSIC EXPRESS LLCInventors: Ryan Kallas, J. Herschel Blankenship
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Patent number: 12167190Abstract: Presented herein are acoustic port covers for attachment to electronic devices. An electronic device includes a housing having at least one acoustic port extending through the housing. An acoustic port cover in accordance with embodiments presented herein is configured to be detachably coupled to the housing so as to cover the at least one acoustic port and function as a barrier to the accumulation of foreign materials/contaminants at a protective membrane associated with the at least one acoustic port.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Tadeusz Jurkiewicz, Nathan Isaacson
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Patent number: 12160721Abstract: Disclosed is a coaxial speaker, including a magnetic circuit system, a first sounding unit, a second sounding unit around the first sounding unit, a flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the first sounding unit, an insert inserted in the magnetic circuit system for supporting the flexible printed circuit board, and a conductive terminal embedded in the insert for electrically connecting the flexible printed circuit board to an external circuit. The flexible printed circuit board has a first fixing part connected to the insert, a second fixing part connected to the first sounding unit, and a resilient arm connected between the two fixing parts and including two arms respectively extending in two different directions. The coaxial speaker has a high sound quality and a receiver function.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhang Ren, Zhiwei Zhong
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Patent number: 12159633Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a voice biometrics system execute machine-learning architectures capable of passive, active, continuous, or static operations, or a combination thereof. Systems passively and/or continuously, in some cases in addition to actively and/or statically, enrolling speakers. The system may dynamically generate and update profiles corresponding to end-users who contact a call center. The system may determine a level of enrollment for the enrollee profiles that limits the types of functions that the user may access. The system may update the profiles as new contact events are received or based on certain temporal triggering conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Payas Gupta, Terry Nelms, II
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Patent number: 12156287Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory, and the at least one processor is configured to, based on a subscriber identity module (SIM) change event, in which at least one SIM is inserted, occurring, identify whether SIM-related information related to the at least one SIM exists in a database which is stored in the memory and includes SIM setting information for services provided by the electronic device, and in case of being identified that the SIM-related information exists in the database, select a SIM for each of the services based on the SIM setting information.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nguyen Van Khanh, Vu Duc Cuong, Do Thi Thuy Van, Nguyen Van Thinh
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Patent number: 12155782Abstract: The present disclosure provides a call method and terminal, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The call method includes: receiving or initiating, by a first terminal, a call request to establish a call with a second terminal; detecting, by the first terminal, at least one of the following: a current task being executed by the first terminal, whether there is one or more third terminals capable of assisting in the call, and a current task being executed by a third terminal; and selecting whether a display interface of the first terminal displays a call assisting option according to the current task being executed by the first terminal and/or the current task being executed by the third terminal; wherein the call assisting option is used to prompt a user to select to answer the call with the second terminal through the assistance of the third terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mingyuan Ma, Yongda Ma, Ken Wen, Honglei Zhang
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Patent number: 12149906Abstract: A phase plug for an electrodynamic compression driver, including a compression chamber formed by an oscillating diaphragm and a boundary face of a phase plug assembly adjacent to the diaphragm, a singular acoustic exit defined by a termination of the phase plug assembly, one or more passageways which traverse through the phase plug assembly from the compression chamber to terminate at the acoustic exit, and an axis of rotation, defined within an interior of the phase plug assembly, that extends from the boundary face of the phase plug assembly at the compression chamber to the acoustic exit, where at least one of the passageways expands in cross sectional area between the respective entrance at the boundary face of the phase plug assembly, and the termination at the acoustic exit, while traversing through the phase plug, and where at least one of the internal passageways with the expanding cross section is rotated about the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: B&C SPEAKERS NA (USA), LLCInventors: Andrea Casadei, Valentina Cardinali, Phillip Graham
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Patent number: 12149572Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing programmatical public switched telephone network (“PSTN”) trunking for cloud hosted applications. In various embodiments, a computing system may determine one or more first network interconnection characteristics associated with a first entity service provider within a call service network operated by a call network service provider. Based on the determined one or more first network interconnection characteristics associated with the first entity service provider, the computing system may cause a network provisioning application layer to establish one or more network interconnections between a first network associated with the first entity service provider and the call service network, in some cases, by establishing shared peering connections between the first network and the call service network.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Kimberly Adams, Anne Kempen, Joseph A. Scivicque, Adam Uzelac