Patents Examined by Allahyar Kasraian
  • Patent number: 10785707
    Abstract: In some examples, a first wireless access network entity receives, from a second wireless access network entity, a system information configuration of the second wireless access network entity, and identifies, based on the received system information configuration, common system information between the first and second wireless access network entities. The first wireless access network entity sends, to a user equipment (UE), an indicator extending an area scope of the common system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Gao Yan, Andrew John Farnsworth, Tomasz Henryk Mach
  • Patent number: 10776617
    Abstract: An automated teller machine includes a camera, a memory, and a hardware processor. The camera captures video data from a user, including at least one hand movement. The processor receives the video data from the camera and splits it into a sequence of images. The processor then splits each image into a set of features and forms vectors from the features. The processor uses the vectors to determine if each image belongs to a subset of images corresponding to a motionless sign-language pattern, or to a subset of images corresponding to a moving sign-language pattern. The processor stores the words and/or phrases assigned to each identified sign-language pattern in an input phrase. The processor determines that the input phrase represents a user request and then processes the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A. Sodano, Morgan S. Allen, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden
  • Patent number: 10779138
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a message to be displayed to a display device of a motor vehicle includes the steps of: is selecting at least one motor vehicle to which a message is to be transmitted from a motor vehicle database on a central computer using predetermined selection criteria and ascertaining a mobile radio system mobile radio identification number associated with the respective motor vehicle; activating an inactive subscriber identity module of the mobile radio system using the mobile radio identification number, wherein the subscriber identity module is connected to a radio device of the at least one selected motor vehicle; setting up a data link from the central computer to the radio device of the at least one selected motor vehicle via the mobile radio system; transmitting the message to be displayed from the central computer via the data link to a processor apparatus, connected to the radio device, of the respective ascertained motor vehicle; processing the message further by way of the processor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Neuhaeuser
  • Patent number: 10771617
    Abstract: A mobile computing intervening system is described. The system may include a primary user computing device running a user application and at least one group user computing device running a user application and coupled to the primary user computing device. The system may operate to establish a geofence and automatically generate a signal to deactivate user computing devices, such as smartphones, within the geofence. This may be done for a certain period of time or until the primary user computing device ends the operation of the system. Families at dinner, students in class, employees in a workplace, and/or other social gatherings/environments may use this application to promote distraction free family time, class time, employment time, etc. by being unplugged from mobile computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Charles Isgar
  • Patent number: 10764422
    Abstract: A digital image viewing system comprises a wireless phone unit, a battery charger for the wireless phone unit and a digital photo frame in short-range wireless communication with the wireless phone unit. The digital photo frame may include phone function unit. Usual slide show is played on display of digital photo frame and replaced by a special image when a speaker of digital photo frame plays a ringer melody. The special image relates to a person causing the ringer melody. An operation at the wireless phone unit is transmitted to the digital photo frame through the short-range wireless communication to change the special image back to the usual slide show. Upon receipt of e-mail with image data attached, cellar phone automatically but conditionally opens the e-mail and takes out the image data to transmit it to digital photo frame through the short-range wireless communication or direct contact with battery charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NL GIKEN INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Masahide Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10757616
    Abstract: Communication network techniques may use geographic information to reduce a number of neighboring cell measurements to be taken. Such techniques may be useful, for example, in cell reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Philip Hole, Stephen McCann, Maiyuran Wijayanathan, Andrew Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 10757530
    Abstract: An online system receives a request from a user of a manager transmitter to generate a unique beacon identifier (ID) associated with a physical location. Responsive to receiving the beacon ID from the online system, the manager transmitter transmits a Bluetooth signal comprising the beacon ID to user client devices, which send the beacon ID to the online system for identification. Responsive to detecting that a received signal strength exceeds a threshold, a location context module classifies the instance of the user client device detecting the signal as an example of a user being present at the physical location. A location prediction module uses the instance as training data to train a machine-learning model to predict the presence of online system users at the physical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Susel, Benjamin Tucker Savage
  • Patent number: 10743150
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a computer system which includes at least the following components: a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of users associated with a plurality of users; where each computing device of the plurality of computing devices is configured to: electronically receive software which, when being executed, cause such computing device to display a plurality of instances of a specifically programmed graphical user interface (GUI); where each instance of the GUI is configured to display a real-time updatable meeting information representative of a direct electronic proximity-based communication between at least two computing devices associated with at least two users who desire to meet at a particular location to engage in a transaction of at least one good, at least one service, or both, whose marketable value lasts for a period of 30 seconds to 60 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Hopgrade, Inc.
    Inventors: John Stuart Kime, Nathan Robert Jones, Christopher Tice Peifer, Andrew David Michaelis, Quenby Justina Swinson-Mitchell, David Rodriguez, Nathan Madera
  • Patent number: 10716051
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a D2D discovery signal and a communication system. The method for transmitting includes: a UE selects a part of resources from a resource pool for transmitting a D2D discovery signal; the part of resources are selected in a manner of limiting number of times of transmission, or in a manner of limiting time interval, or in a manner of calculating a resource position; and transmits the D2D discovery signal by using the selected part of resources. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, malignant competitions may be avoided, resource utilization may be improved, and probabilities of undiscovery between UEs may be lowered; or detection may performed accurately, and complexity of a UE may be lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Lianhai Wu, Tao Qiu, Haibo Xu, Hua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10709399
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and device for performing three-dimensional blood vessel reconstruction using angiographic images. The method includes an acquisition step that acquires a first two-dimensional image of the blood vessel in the first projection direction and a corresponding reconstructed three-dimensional model of the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN KEYA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Ma, Shubao Liu, Xiaoxiao Liu, Qi Song
  • Patent number: 10686510
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamforming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improves user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Song, Lai King Tee, Jun Li
  • Patent number: 10679359
    Abstract: A motion detection method is applied to a monitoring camera apparatus with motion detection function. The motion detection method includes analyzing a pixel value of each frame from a video stream changed over time, defining a first period and a second period having the pixel value greater than a triggering threshold respectively as a first event and a second event, comparing a time length of the first period with a filtering threshold to acquire time difference between an end point of the first period and a beginning point of the second period, comparing the time difference with a merging threshold, and acquiring relation between the first event and the second event according to comparison results of the filtering threshold and the merging threshold, so as to determine a detecting period of the motion detection function for actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: VIVOTEK INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Chieh Liu, Hsun-Shun Yu
  • Patent number: 10681602
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and apparatuses provide a service to user equipment through a dedicated core network. In one method, a base station, also referred to as eNB, receives a non-access stratum (NAS) message from user equipment (UE), and transmits a first initial UE message having the NAS message to a first mobility management entity (MME).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Won, Sunghoon Kim, Songyean Cho
  • Patent number: 10667124
    Abstract: A system, a computer program product and a method associate service licenses with a wireless device. A device identifier (device ID) which identifies the wireless device and a Subscriber Identity Module identifier (SIM ID) identifying a SIM card currently inserted in the wireless device are received. If the SIM ID is not currently associated with the device ID, a listing of service licenses associated with the SIM ID is aggregated with a listing of service licenses associated with the device ID. The wireless device is authorized to use service licenses listed in the aggregate listing of service licenses. A virtual SIM identifier may be associated with the SIM identifier and at least one additional service license. The at least one additional service license associated with the virtual SIM identifier may be stored in a database as a subscriber service profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Piotr Madej, Andrew Christopher Smith
  • Patent number: 10667084
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention discloses a network positioning method and related equipment, the method includes: determining an end-to-end communication range of the first device is smaller than a preset range, wherein the end-to-end communication range of the first device is a device-to-device (D2D) communication range of the first device, and the preset range is a threshold value sent by a network side; acquiring positioning signals of at least three positioning nodes, wherein the at least three positioning nodes comprise an second device, wherein the second device is located within the end-to-end communication range of the first device, and the second device is determined by the first device to have valid position information; and determining a current position of the first device based on the valid position information of the second device. The technical solution provided by the present invention can effectively enhance the network positioning precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dengkun Xiao, Jie Cui, Yuan He, Jiangbo Zhu
  • Patent number: 10652805
    Abstract: A device including a measurement unit configured to perform measurement of each of one or more frequency bands that are a part of a plurality of frequency bands that are not used by a terminal device. The measurement wait does not perform measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands or performs measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands at a frequency lower than a frequency of the measurements of each of the one or more frequency bands, which makes it possible to improve measurement performed by a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10630830
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first microphone, a second microphone, a sensing unit, and a control unit. The first and second microphones are respectively positioned at two different sides of the electronic device. The sensing unit is configured to sense a first light value of a first side of the electronic device, a second light value of a second side of the electronic device and an orientation of the electronic device. The control unit is configured to select one of the first microphone and the second microphone to work according to the first and second light values and the orientation of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Yuan Lee, Chun-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10631230
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a data use device in a network, whether the data use device follows a non-extended access barring (EAB) network access protocol for a first service and an EAB network access protocol for a second service. The method further includes determining, by the data use device, whether EAB access has been granted in the network. Upon determining that EAB access has not been granted, the data use device bars network access requests of the second service and allows network access requests of the first service. Upon determining that EAB access has been granted, the data use device allows all network access requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 10616850
    Abstract: A method performed by an AMF is provided. The method includes determining an elapsed time value (?RAN). The method further includes determining whether the elapsed time value is less than a negotiated NAS periodic timer (?NAS-per). The AMF is configured such that, as a result of the AMF determining that ?RAN<?NAS-per, the AMF transitions the UE to CM-IDLE state and starts a NAS periodic timer with a value equal to ?NAS-per??RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Qian Chen, Josefin Karlsson, Peter Ramle, Paul Schliwa-Bertling
  • Patent number: 10609612
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and apparatuses provide a service to user equipment through a dedicated core network. In one method, a base station, also referred to as eNB, receives a non-access stratum (NAS) message from user equipment (UE), and transmits a first initial UE message having the NAS message to a first mobility management entity (MME).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hwan Won, Sunghoon Kim, Songyean Cho