Patents Examined by Amancio Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11432216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hanyang Wang, Pranesh Sinha, Ajit Chourasia, Zheng Fang
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Patent number: 11431843Abstract: Systems and methods for managing non-associative communications between devices is provided. A first call chain that indicates a routing between phone numbers is stored. A first phone call or a first SMS text is received from a first session initiation protocol (SIP) provider. Based on information provided by the first SIP provider, (i) a sender identity of the first phone call or the first SMS text; (ii) a receiver identity of the first phone call or the first SMS text; and (iii) an access mode of the call chain are determined. If the receiver identity corresponds to a first phone number in the first call chain, a second phone call or a second SMS text is initiated via a second SIP provider, from a second phone number in the first call chain, based on the sender identity and the access mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Cyber IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Christopher Edward Delaney, Chava Louis Jurado, Carl Bailey Jacobs, William Theodore Schoon
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Patent number: 11424927Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating avionic data to a non-avionic device situated outside of the cockpit of an aircraft are provided. A method may comprise the steps of receiving a request, aimed at receiving avionic data from avionic systems, from a non-avionic client device; determining the distance between the non-avionic device and the cockpit of the aircraft; and adjusting the sending of data in response to the request depending on the determined distance. Developments of the invention describe the use of a wireless access point associated with a secure gateway determining the access rights to the avionic data for the non-avionic device, various sending and/or display adjustments depending notably on the distance, threshold management, various indoor positioning techniques, unilateral or bilateral communications, various notifications, the use of lightweight connected clients (for example earpiece, watch, glasses, etc.).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: THALESInventors: Laurent Castet, Renaud Erba, Frédéric Sanchez
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Patent number: 11425540Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of sending vertical SMS messages comprising a lead administrator contacting a first server with a request to create a group and providing certain identifying information to the first server; assigning an identification number to the group; creating and assigning at least one access code to the group; sharing the access code to desired members of the group and adding members to the group that send the access code to the identification number; and sending a SMS message to members of the group from the lead administrator, wherein the SMS messages are only shared vertically within the group.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventors: Jim Heffernan, Robert Sorrells
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Patent number: 11425619Abstract: An electronic device for providing a communication service, and an operating method thereof is provided. Herein, the electronic device may include a communication circuitry, at least one processor, and a memory operatively coupled with the at least one processor to store a Tracking Area Identifier (TAI) list. The memory may include instructions, when executed, causing the at least one processor to run a specified first timer upon detecting an attach failure or a Tracking Area Update (TAU) failure in a first cell, perform cell reselection on a second cell during the first timer runs, determine whether a TAI of the second cell is included in the TAI list, and when the TAI of the second cell is included in the TAI list, forcibly expire the first timer, and transmit an attach request message or a TAU message through the communication circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jinmo Lee, Keonyoung Lee, Daejun Kang, Dongsuk Jung, Sunmin Hwang
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Patent number: 11418941Abstract: A technique is provided that is related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication method, and an integrated circuit which enable efficient communication. A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, a message requesting mobility history information, and a transmitter configured to notify the base station apparatus of the mobility history information, based on the message. The mobility history information includes a list including identifier information (first identifier information) of a cell of a first radio access technology, and a list including identifier information (second identifier information) of a cell of a second radio access technology. The mobility history information includes stay time information of a limited number of entries, each corresponding to a visit by the terminal apparatus in a cell and/or outside a network.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi, Shohei Yamada, Takako Hori
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Patent number: 11408958Abstract: The present application relates to correction of position data used in a position information collection system, in which measurement points correspond to position data of a mobile body at respective time points and a movement path of the mobile body connects the measurement points in a time series. When the position data produces a movement path of the mobile body which passes through a not-enterable area, the position data is corrected such that the movement path of the mobile body circumvents the not-enterable area without reducing positioning accuracy, by performing position correction operations which include: determining a crossing status with regard to how the movement path crosses the not-enterable area; counting a number of the measurement points within the not-enterable area; and correcting the position data such that the movement path circumvents the not-enterable area.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayano Kaneda, Kohtaro Matsumuro, Hiroshi Noguchi
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Patent number: 11405843Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for selecting network protocols using heatmaps. For instance, a system may receive radio frequency information from one or more sources located within an environment. The system may then generate heatmaps using the radio frequency information, where the heatmaps represent characteristics associated with different network protocols. The characteristics may include signal strengths, throughputs, data packet drop rates, data packet retry rates, and/or the like for various locations within the environment. A user device may then receive the heatmaps from the system. Using a location of the user device and the heatmaps, the user device may determine to communicate using a network protocol from the different network protocols. The user device may then establish a connection using the network protocol.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Indermeet Gandhi, Shree Murthy, Malcolm Smith, Jerome Henry
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Patent number: 11395205Abstract: Provided are a method for performing, by a user equipment (UE), a role change between a primary cell and a secondary cell in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting the same. The method may include: receiving a configuration and a condition for triggering the role change between the primary cell and the secondary cell; configuring a source cell as the primary cell and a target cell as the secondary cell; determining whether or not the condition is satisfied; and when it is determined that the condition is satisfied, configuring the target cell as the primary cell and the source cell as the secondary cell based on the configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yejee Lee, Youngdae Lee
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Patent number: 11391807Abstract: A system for use in transmitting data. The system includes at least one wireless beacon positionable in a work zone, with the at least one wireless beacon configured to emit a signal. A diagnostic device is configured to mate with an object positionable in the work zone, the diagnostic device including a wireless transceiver configured to receive the signal, and a controller in communication with the wireless transceiver. The controller is configured to receive a data package associated with the object, determine a location of the object based on an analysis of the signal, and transmit, via the wireless transceiver, the data package to the work zone when it is determined that the object is positioned within the work zone.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: David J. McNeill, Robert Mark Ziccardi, Ryan Thomas Sonoda, Dylan Hickman, Brian D. Ayers, Mark Blustein, Derrick Ian Cobb, Andrew Kent Hittle
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Patent number: 11382131Abstract: There is disclosed method of operating a receiving radio node (10, 100) in a wireless communication network, the method comprising receiving data signaling based on a data signaling indication, the data signaling indication indicating data signaling of an unspecified duration. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Erik Eriksson, Ajit Nimbalker, Stefan Parkvall, John Skördeman
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Patent number: 11368893Abstract: The communication device collects information regarding the communication quality of communication by the first other communication device and information regarding the type of the first other communication device; and transmits information regarding the communication quality corresponding to at least one of the types along with the information regarding the types to a second other communication device based on the information collected.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masaru Otaka, Satoshi Onodera
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Patent number: 11368815Abstract: A tracking system determines a location of a tracking device associated with a user using one or more access points at the location. Each access point at the location is configured to detect and couple with the tracking device when the tracking device is within a communicative range of the access point. An access point provides updates on the tracking device's presence, as well as the tracking device's arrival to and departure from the communicative range of the access point, to a tracking server. The tracking server determines, from these updates, whether the tracking device is at the location. The user may be notified, via a mobile device, of the tracking device's location.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise
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Patent number: 11368571Abstract: A first wearable accessory has a first lighting device. A mobile device is in close proximity to the first wearable accessory and has a lighting component communicating with the first wearable accessory via coded identifiable promiscuous broadcast to instruct the first wearable accessory to light the first lighting device. A second wearable accessory is in close proximity to the mobile device and having a second lighting component. The mobile device lighting component can be activated to communicate via an identical coded identifiable promiscuous broadcast with the second wearable accessory to instruct the second wearable accessory to light the second lighting device.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventor: David Wright
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Measuring and using dispersion for user mobility analytics to improve management of cellular systems
Patent number: 11363481Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches dispersion analysis of individual UE devices, measuring the span of cellular locations in a 5G network over which the bulk of a user's data, voice minutes and text messaging usage take place. Dispersion analysis also measures the span of cellular locations over which the bulk of a user's transactions and failed transactions take place, providing insights into camping behavior on specific cellular locations and hot spot formation. The technology disclosed includes new collection and filtering of location data to pinpoint cellular communication challenges encountered by users as well as system improvement and remediation opportunities. Additionally, this technology enables reporting of the detected behavior and related hot spots formation analysis with identifiers of UE mobile devices involved. The technology also applies to 3G 4G and future mobile networks and can be utilized for a group of UE devices selected for analysis, by device, geography, or affinity.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.Inventors: Peretz M. Feder, Sandra R. Thuel, Meenal Agarwal -
Patent number: 11363508Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle uses a calculation unit to calculate a distance between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a controller, uses a search unit to search for an available moving body communication line when the distance exceeds a predetermined threshold in a case where the unmanned aerial vehicle and the controller are directly communicating with each other, and uses a communication continuation processing unit to perform predetermined processing for continuing the communication depending on a search result. The unmanned aerial vehicle, the controller, and the management device may be linked to a block-chain network by communication via the block-chain network in association with processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Nakajima, Hirotaka Uchitomi
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Patent number: 11357049Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication apparatus that can notify surrounding apparatuses of the presence of the apparatus that is receiving data. A wireless transmission processing section of a communication apparatus serving as a data frame transmitting side transmits, under control of a transmission timing control section, a data frame to a destination communication apparatus so as to include intermittent transmission-suspension periods. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeru Sugaya
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Patent number: 11356841Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a beyond-4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety-related services). At least one processor receives a remote management command from a profile server, determines if the remote management command can be handled, performs the received remote management command, switches the remote management command to a local management command if necessary according to the result of performing the remote management command, and controls the transceiver so as to transmit the result of performing the remote management command or the local management command to the profile server.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyewon Lee, Jonghan Park, Duckey Lee, Sangsoo Lee
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Patent number: 11356908Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for a handover. The methods may include establishing a connection between a vehicle terminal and a first macro evolved Node B (MeNB) and a connection between the vehicle terminal and a secondary evolved Node B (SeNB), the vehicle terminal in a dual connectivity mode with the first MeNB and the SeNB; receiving, by the vehicle terminal, a handover command from the first MeNB; and disconnecting, based on the handover command, the vehicle terminal from the first MeNB and establishing synchronization between the vehicle terminal and a second MeNB, wherein the connection between the vehicle terminal and the SeNB is maintained. The SeNB is a secondary vehicle terminal meeting a preset condition or an SeNB installed at a fixed location.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONSInventors: Dapeng Wu, Yaping Cui, Ruyan Wang, Feng Zhang
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Patent number: 11350332Abstract: A method is provided for transferring a mobile terminal attached to a first access entity of an operator to a second access entity of a set of access entities controlled by at least one other operator within a communication network, the method implemented by a control device for routing data of the terminal. The method includes receiving, a connectivity message from entities of the set, determining an eligibility value relative to each entity based on at least one received parameter and a cooperation factor between the first entity and each other entity, selecting the second entity on the basis of the determined eligibility value, transmitting a transfer message to the first entity and to the second entity.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ORANGEInventors: Veronica Karina Quintuna Rodriguez, Gaël Fromentoux, Xavier Marjou