Patents Examined by Amancio Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11550527
    Abstract: Disclosed are a media file processing method for a display device and the display device. The method includes receiving, by the display device being in a standby mode, a wakeup signal broadcasted from a mobile device through a wireless module of the display device; and triggering, according to the wakeup signal, an electrical level change so that the display device is configured to enter into a customized mode where the display device is started but a screen of the display device is not lighted. The display device in the customized mode is discoverable by the mobile device. The method includes receiving, by the display device in the customized mode, a push instruction for playing a media file transmitting from the mobile device, lighting the screen, and playing the media file according to the push instruction so as to make the display device enter a normal operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Luming Yang, Zhiqiang Li, Yongfu Chen, Shaofeng Tan, Weiming Ju
  • Patent number: 11546819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method in a cellular telecommunications network, the method including discovering a second donor base station having a first interface for communicating with the first central base station unit and a second interface for wirelessly communicating with the distributed base station unit; determining a capacity of a connection between the central base station unit and the distributed base station unit via the second donor base station; determining that the capacity of the connection satisfies a functional split threshold; and, in response to this determination, causing the centralized base station unit and the distributed base station unit to implement a second functional split in which a third set of protocol functions are implemented in the distributed base station unit and a fourth set of protocol functions are implemented in the central base station unit; and initiating a handover of the distributed base station unit from the first donor base station to the second donor base station
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Fitch, Richard Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 11539839
    Abstract: A gateway device includes a call handling equipment (CHE) listener interface, an Internet Protocol (IP) interface, a provisioning engine, and a message parsing engine. The CPE listener interface forms a communication channel with a CHE and receives call event data from the CHE. The IP interface communicates with a cloud-based processing system. The provisioning engine receives, from the cloud-based processing system via the IP interface, instructions for parsing data from a data output format of the CHE into a consistent data format of the cloud-based processing system. The message parsing engine parses the call event data received from the CHE via the CHE listener interface, and formats the call event data according to the consistent data format. The gateway device transmits the formatted call event data to the cloud-based processing system via the IP interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: RapidDeploy, Inc.
    Inventor: Justin Jensen
  • Patent number: 11533639
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to a network for providing air-to-ground wireless communication in various cells. The network includes a first base station array, each base station of which includes a respective first antenna array defining a directional radiation pattern that is oriented in a first direction, wherein each base station of the first base station array is disposed spaced apart from another base station of the first base station array along the first direction by a first distance. The network also includes a similar second base station array where the second base station array extends substantially parallel to the first base station array and is spaced apart from the first base station array by a second distance to form continuous and at least partially overlapping cell coverage areas between respective base stations of the first and second base station arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Hyslop
  • Patent number: 11509757
    Abstract: A wireless internet monitoring system comprising an application on a plurality of mobile devices recording the strength of a wireless internet signal received at a mobile device along with a GPS coordinates of the mobile device at time of said recording, wherein said application transmits the monitored signal strength along with said GPS coordinates to a backend application executed on a server. The backend application consolidates the monitored signal strength and said GPS coordinates with one or more previously monitored signal strength and GPS coordinate and preparing a geographical map of the monitored signal strength to be displayed by the application on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Martin Labrie
  • Patent number: 11496861
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for wireless beacon devices for use in tracking user locations during group travel. A user may take a trip on a vehicle, such as a bus, train, cruise ship, or other large travel vehicle. The users may disembark the vehicle in order to visit a location but plan to travel further on the vehicle. Thus, when the vehicle is attempting to leave the location where the users have left the vehicle, the vehicle may be required to again account for each passenger. The vehicle may utilize a wireless beacon located near an entrance and/or onboard the vehicle to account for each passenger. The wireless beacon may connect to a communication device of each user when the communication device is in proximity to the wireless beacon and, thus, inform the vehicle's operator that each user in located on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Mary O'Malley
  • Patent number: 11496939
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide automated generation of neighbor frequency lists for configuration of frequency objects for wireless stations. A computing device selects a target sector carrier of a wireless station of multiple wireless stations in a radio access network and identifies, based on distances from the wireless station, neighboring sector carriers of the target sector carrier. The computing device filters the neighboring sector carriers based on an azimuth of the target sector carrier to form a filtered set of neighboring sector carriers. The computing device calculates a probability of neighboring frequencies for the target sector carrier based on locations of the filtered set of neighboring sector carriers and generates, based on the calculating, a neighbor frequency list for the target sector carrier. The neighbor frequency list is used to configure frequency objects, for the target sector carrier, that ensure seamless handovers within the radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudha Subramaniam, Brandon Scott Atkins, Timothy E. Coyle, Christian Winter
  • Patent number: 11496935
    Abstract: This application provides a cell measurement method and terminal device. The cell measurement method includes: first determining, by a terminal device, whether a cell meets a first preset condition; and when the terminal device determines that the cell meets the first preset condition, measuring or evaluating, by the terminal device, the cell by using a first period; or when the terminal device determines that the cell does not meet the first preset condition, measuring or evaluating, by the terminal device, the cell by using a second period, where the cell being a serving cell or a neighboring cell of the terminal device corresponds to different first preset conditions, and the first period is different from the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Cai, Yanzhao He, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11490313
    Abstract: Some embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a wireless communication device for managing communication in a wireless communications network. The wireless communication device obtains an indicator indicating a model and one or more trained model parameters for the model, wherein the model is related to an event being one of the following events: a handover procedure, a cell reselection procedure, and a beam reselection procedure. The wireless communication device further selects the model based on the obtained indicator. The wireless communication device executes the selected model using the obtained one or more trained model parameters; and triggers a process, being associated with the event, based on an output of the executed model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Isaksson, Walter Müller, Azadeh Bararsani, Rickard Cöster, Tor Kvernvik
  • Patent number: 11483752
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile radio station in communication with a current base station of a plurality of base stations receives hello packets from one or more of the base stations. The hello packets from the current base station are received on a first frequency via a first mobile radio unit (M1) and the hello packets from one or more base stations are received on a second frequency via a second mobile radio unit (M2). When the signal strength value of the current base station exceeds a threshold value, the mobile radio station: selects a destination from the plurality of base stations based on the destination having a highest signal strength value among those in the plurality of base stations that sent hello packets to M2 on the second frequency, and forces a handoff from M1 to M2, by establishing a new link between M2 and the destination base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FLUIDMESH NETWORKS S.R.I.
    Inventors: Gaetano Catalli, Alessandro Erta, Luca Bisti, Umberto Malesci
  • Patent number: 11483686
    Abstract: Example systems are described for remotely interacting with a portable field measurement device. Systems can include a controller that can: couple to a mobile device; receive user input from a user through the mobile device; cause the portable field measurement device to execute the operations directed by the user; electronically record data output from the portable field measurement device resulting from the directed operations; and report the data to the user via the mobile device, and/or to a remote electronic database. In some embodiments, a robotic arm can be used to actuate the portable field measurement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ENGEO INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gilead Wurman, Michael John Price, Joseph Gray
  • Patent number: 11477706
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for measurement report triggering are disclosed. One method of UE such as aerial vehicles includes determining whether to transmit a measurement report according to a counter for a number of the neighbor cells with signal strength fulfilling a condition indicated by a network equipment; and transmitting the measurement report to the network equipment including information of the neighbor cells, in the case that the counter is larger than or equal with a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Han, Jie Hu, Lianhai Wu, Haiming Wang
  • Patent number: 11470577
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for paging procedures in wireless systems. For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may monitor one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) for paging resources associated with a first subset of synchronization signal (SS) blocks that corresponds to a first beam tracking area (BTA). On a condition that at least one measurement of at least one beam associated with the first subset of SS blocks is less than a predetermined threshold, the WTRU may transmit, to a base station (BS), a signal indicating a second BTA that is associated with a second subset of SS blocks. The signal includes a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with a second group of SS blocks that corresponds to the second BTA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz
  • Patent number: 11463893
    Abstract: Included are a first mobile terminal testing device that operates as an LTE base station, a second mobile terminal testing device that operates as an NSA 5G NR base station, and a test control device that controls the first mobile terminal testing device and the second mobile terminal testing device. The test control device includes a command input unit into which a control command for controlling the first mobile terminal testing device and the second mobile terminal testing device is input, a command transmission determination unit that determines a mobile terminal testing device of a transmission destination of the control command, and a command transmission unit that transmits the control command to a transmission destination determined by the command transmission determination unit. The command transmission determination unit determines the transmission destination of the control command according to the type of the control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Kano, Yuki Naruse, Keiichi Mineda
  • Patent number: 11463933
    Abstract: A communication controller includes a position-information acquiring unit, a movement-information acquiring unit, a selector, and a determination unit. The position-information acquiring unit acquires position information of each of a plurality of base-station devices. The movement-information acquiring unit acquires movement information of a terminal device. The selector selects, as a handover candidate, at least one base-station device from among the plurality of base-station devices in accordance with the position information and the movement information. The determination unit determines a base-station device that is a handover destination, in accordance with a result of a cell search performed on the at least one base-station device selected by the selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Yamamoto, Shuichi Takehana, Shigeto Suzuki, Kennichi Iijima
  • Patent number: 11463575
    Abstract: A cellular monitoring system comprising an application on a plurality of mobile devices recording the strength of a cellular signal received at a mobile device along with a GPS coordinates of the mobile device at time of said recording, wherein said application transmits the monitored signal strength along with said GPS coordinates to a backend application executed on a server. The backend application consolidates the monitored signal strength and said GPS coordinates with one or more previously monitored signal strength and GPS coordinate and preparing a geographical map of the monitored signal strength to be displayed by the application on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Martin Labrie
  • Patent number: 11463930
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is radio access technology (RAT) switching in a wireless communication system, and an operating method of a server for managing a session comprises the steps of: receiving information related to a determination on the switching of a RAT; determining, on the basis of the information, whether the RAT for providing a service to a terminal is switched from a first RAT to a second RAT; and transmitting, to an object for processing a user plan, a message indicating that a data route of the terminal will be switched from the first RAT to the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsung Kho, Jaehyun Hwang, Joonseo Lee, Moonyoung Jeong, Kyuho Han
  • Patent number: 11445423
    Abstract: Network environment health monitoring is provided by receiving an alert indicating that a first station (STA) is experiencing a connection with a first Access Point (AP) below a quality threshold; identifying a set of APs connected to a shared network with the first AP within one hop of the first AP; aggregating signal metrics for the first STA from the first AP and each AP of the set of APs; identifying a cause for the connection performing below the quality threshold based on the signal metrics as aggregated; and performing a remediation strategy based on the cause as identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal S. Desai, Benjamin J. Cizdziel, Santosh B. Kulkarni, Young Il Choi
  • Patent number: 11445427
    Abstract: A communication device includes a wireless communication device, a location information acquisition device, a storage and a controller. The wireless communication device wirelessly communicates with a base station used as a connection destination. The location information acquisition device acquires location information on a location of the communication device. The storage stores historical communication information on past communication status. The controller determines a degree of risk of occurrence of reduction in an amount of available communication bandwidth beyond a tolerance limit based on the historical communication information and the location information. The controller further controls a transmission rate for communicating the data based on a result of determination of the degree of risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shimizu, Hiroaki Asano, Hideki Shingu
  • Patent number: 11432216
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for smart data service link switching (SLS) among subscriber identity modules (SIMs). An example method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes communicating data via an active link, wherein the active link comprises a first link of a first data subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE; determining, based on one or more parameters, to switch the active link to a second link of a second data SIM of the UE; and switching the active link to the second link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hanyang Wang, Pranesh Sinha, Ajit Chourasia, Zheng Fang